Robin Fletcher

Robin Fletcher

Personal information
Born	30 May 1922 Guildford, England
Died	15 January 2016 (aged 93)
Playing position	Forward
Senior career
Years	Team
1947–1952	Oxford University
1952–1954	City of Oxford
National team
Years	Team	Caps	Goals
	Great Britain
	England
Medal record Men's field hockey Representing Great Britain Bronze medal – third place 1952 Helsinki Team competition

Robin Anthony Fletcher OBE DSC (30 May 1922 – 15 January 2016) 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.

He initially played his club hockey for Oxford University before playing for the City of Oxford Hockey Club. He also played for Somerset at county level. He later became involved with the management of the British team.

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. 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. Portraits of Fletcher hang in Rhodes House, Oxford, and Trinity College, Oxford.

External links

• Fletcher's profile at databaseOlympics