Robin Fletcher
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1952 Helsinki | Team competition |
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.
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
- ^ "Obituaries - The Rhodes Scholarships". Rhodeshouse.ox.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 2016-08-26. Retrieved 2016-02-01.
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- ^ "Rhodes House - Home of The Rhodes Scholarships". Rhodeshouse.ox.ac.uk. 2016-01-15. Retrieved 2016-02-01.
- ^ "Your Paintings : Robin Fletcher (b.1922)". Bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 2016-02-01.
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- 1922 births
- 2016 deaths
- Wardens of Rhodes House
- Fellows of Trinity College, Oxford
- British male field hockey players
- Olympic field hockey players of Great Britain
- Field hockey players at the 1952 Summer Olympics
- Olympic bronze medallists for Great Britain
- Olympic medalists in field hockey
- Officers of the Order of the British Empire
- Recipients of the Distinguished Service Cross (United Kingdom)
- Medalists at the 1952 Summer Olympics
- British Olympic medallist stubs