Robin Fletcher

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]

• Robin Fletcher at Team GB
• Robin Fletcher at Olympedia
• Fletcher's profile at databaseOlympics