Robin Fletcher Explained
Robin Anthony Fletcher (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. 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.[2] 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.[3] Portraits of Fletcher hang in Rhodes House, Oxford, and Trinity College, Oxford.[4]
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Notes and References
- Web site: Obituaries - The Rhodes Scholarships . Rhodeshouse.ox.ac.uk . 2016-02-01 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20160826085807/http://www.rhodeshouse.ox.ac.uk/obituaries . 2016-08-26 . Web site: Rhodes Scholars pay tribute to Warden Robin Fletcher - the Rhodes Scholarships . 2016-05-07 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20160215044333/http://www.rhodeshouse.ox.ac.uk/news/rhodes-scholars-pay-tribute-warden-fletcher . 2016-02-15 .
- https://www.trinity.ox.ac.uk/robin-fletcher/
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- Web site: Rhodes House - Home of The Rhodes Scholarships . Rhodeshouse.ox.ac.uk . 2016-01-15 . 2016-02-01.
- Web site: Your Paintings : Robin Fletcher (b.1922) . . 2016-02-01.
