Robin Anthony Fletcher OBE DSC (30 May 1922 – 15 January 2016)[1] was a British academic administrator, and a British field hockey player who competed in the 1952 Summer Olympics. He was a member of the British field hockey team which won the bronze medal. He played all three matches as forward.
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Representing  United Kingdom
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1952 Helsinki | Team competition |
Fletcher was a scholar of modern Greek who was a Fellow of Trinity College, Oxford, from 1950 to 1989, and later became an emeritus Fellow. Between 1951 and 1974 he combined the position of Domestic Bursar with a university lectureship in modern Greek.[2] From 1980 to 1989 he served as Warden of Rhodes House, Oxford, responsible for the running of the Rhodes Scholarship. His memoirs, A Favouring Wind: A passage within and without academia, were published in 2007. His wife Jinny died in July 2010.[3] Portraits of Fletcher hang in Rhodes House, Oxford, and Trinity College, Oxford.[4]
References
edit- ^ "Obituaries - The Rhodes Scholarships". Rhodeshouse.ox.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 26 August 2016. Retrieved 1 February 2016. "Rhodes Scholars pay tribute to Warden Robin Fletcher - the Rhodes Scholarships". Archived from the original on 15 February 2016. Retrieved 7 May 2016.
- ^ https://www.trinity.ox.ac.uk/robin-fletcher/ Oneltd. "Trinity College – Fellows and College Officers". Trinity.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 1 February 2016.
- ^ "Rhodes House - Home of The Rhodes Scholarships". Rhodeshouse.ox.ac.uk. 15 January 2016. Retrieved 1 February 2016.
- ^ "Your Paintings : Robin Fletcher (b.1922)". Art UK. Retrieved 1 February 2016.
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