William Fletcher

The Reverend William Roby Fletcher (6 April 1833 – 5 June 1894 ), known as Roby Fletcher or W. Roby Fletcher, was a Congregational minister and vice-chancellor of the University of Adelaide.

Fletcher was born in Manchester, England. He was the son of the Rev. Richard Fletcher, a well-known Congregational minister who ministered in Manchester and later in Melbourne, Victoria, where he died in 1861. and Owens College (later Victoria University, Manchester). From 1878 he was a member of the council of the University of Adelaide, of which he was made an honorary M.A. in 1877. During the last illness of Professor Davidson, and subsequent to his death, Fletcher was the acting Hughes Professor of English Language and Literature and Mental and Moral Philosophy. In 1890 he was elected vice-chancellor of the university.