Robin Fletcher
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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.
Biography
Fletcher represented Great Britain in the field hockey tournament at the 1952 Olympic Games in Helsinki. He played all three matches as a forward.[2][3]
He initially played his club hockey for Oxford University before playing for the City of Oxford Hockey Club.[4] He also played for Somerset at county level.[5] He later became involved with the management of the British team.[6]
Fletcher was a scholar of modern Greek and 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.[7] 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.[8] Portraits of Fletcher hang in Rhodes House, Oxford, and Trinity College, Oxford.[9]
References
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- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Obituaries - The Rhodes Scholarships". Rhodeshouse.ox.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 26 August 2016. Retrieved 1 February 2016. Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Rhodes Scholars pay tribute to Warden Robin Fletcher - the Rhodes Scholarships". Archived from the original on 15 February 2016. Retrieved 7 May 2016.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Biographical Information". Olympedia. Retrieved 17 July 2025.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."British Hockey changes". Nottingham Evening Post. 22 July 1952. Retrieved 17 July 2025 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Hockey". Rugby Advertiser. 13 February 1948. Retrieved 17 July 2025 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Hockey Trial". Western Daily Press. 19 January 1949. Retrieved 17 July 2025 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Hockey Trial". Nottingham Evening Post. 29 August 1960. Retrieved 17 July 2025 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ^ https://www.trinity.ox.ac.uk/robin-fletcher/ Script error: No such module "webarchive". Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Oneltd. "Trinity College – Fellows and College Officers". Trinity.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 1 February 2016.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Rhodes House - Home of The Rhodes Scholarships". Rhodeshouse.ox.ac.uk. 15 January 2016. Retrieved 1 February 2016.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Your Paintings : Robin Fletcher (b.1922)". Art UK. Retrieved 1 February 2016.
External links
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