Robin Fletcher
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. 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. 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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Vorname: | Robin |
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Geburtsdatum: | 30.05.1922 (♊ Zwillinge) |
Geburtsort: | Guildford |
Sterbedatum: | 15.01.2016 |
Nationalität: | Vereinigtes Königreich |
Sprachen: | Englisch; |
Geschlecht: | ♂männlich |
Berufe: | Hockeyspieler, |
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