Robin Fletcher


Robin Anthony Fletcher 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.