Robin Fletcher, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Robin Fletcher

field hockey player

Date of Birth: 30-May-1922

Place of Birth: Guildford, England, United Kingdom

Date of Death: 15-Jan-2016

Profession: field hockey player

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Gemini

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.
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.