Robert Fison

The son of a grammar school teacher, Robert Fison was educated at Marlborough, and Clare College, Cambridge. He was a hockey Blue in 1927 and 1928 and only an attack of jaundice prevented him winning a third Blue in 1929, when he was that season’s Cambridge University Hockey Club captain. He went on to win 15 England caps and was captain between 1932-34. He played for Cambridge University Wanderers and Beckenham, and won representative honours with Surrey and the East of England. Fison was also the president of the Southern Counties Hockey Association, vice-president of the Reigate Hockey Club and, from 1966 until the time of his death, was president of the Hockey Association. Fison had the honour of being manager of the 1952 Great Britain Olympic team that won the bronze medal.

Fison was awarded the CBE in 1967 for his services to export as managing director of Meredith and Drew biscuit manufacturers. He died in 1972, less than a year after his wife Margaret. His older brother Kenneth was also a Cambridge hockey Blue, and they played alongside each other in the Varsity Match of 1927.