Robin Fletcher
British field hockey player
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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.
Guildford, England
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| Born |
30 May 1922 Guildford, England | |||||||||||||
| Died | 15 January 2016 (aged 93) | |||||||||||||
| Playing position | Forward | |||||||||||||
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| 1947–1952 | Oxford University | |||||||||||||
| 1952–1954 | City of Oxford | |||||||||||||
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| Years | Team | Caps | Goals | |||||||||||
| – | Great Britain | |||||||||||||
| – | England | |||||||||||||
Medal record
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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]
