Alick Robin Walsham Harrison CBE (15 November 1900 – 18 May 1969)[1] was an English academic, Warden of Merton College, Oxford, from 1963 until his death in 1969.
[2][3] Robin Harrison was born on 15 November 1900 in Hambledon, Surrey and was educated at Haileybury and Merton College, Oxford.
At the start of the Second World War he entered government service in the Ministry of Food, where he became Deputy Director of Public Relations and Private Secretary to the minister Lord Woolton.
[4][7] That year he returned to Merton to take up his old job as Fellow and Tutor in Ancient History.
[9] He was involved in university planning and helped in the foundation of two new colleges, Wolfson and St. Cross.