Robin Anthony Fletcher (30 May 1922 – 15 January 2016) was a British academic administrator, and a British field hockey player who competed in the

1952 Summer Olympics The 1952 Summer Olympics ( fi, Kesäolympialaiset 1952; sv, Olympiska sommarspelen 1952), officially known as the Games of the XV Olympiad ( fi, XV olympiadin kisat; sv, Den XV olympiadens spel) and commonly known as Helsinki 1952 ( sv, Helsin ...

. 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. From 1980 to 1989 he served as Warden of Rhodes House, Oxford, responsible for the running of the

Rhodes Scholarship The Rhodes Scholarship is an international postgraduate award for students to study at the University of Oxford, in the United Kingdom. Established in 1902, it is the oldest graduate scholarship in the world. It is considered among the world' ...

. 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.

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Fletcher's profile at databaseOlympics
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 {{UK-fieldhockey-Olympic-medalist-stub