Education
He attended Barrow Grammar School and then Street Edmund Hall, Oxford.
He attended Barrow Grammar School and then Street Edmund Hall, Oxford.
He served as the sixth suffragan Bishop of Pontefract and subsequently fourth diocesan Bishop of Sheffield. Fallows was born in 1913 in Barrow-in-Furness. He trained for ordination at Ripon Hall, Oxford.
He died in office in August 1979 after suffering from cancer and Parkinson’s disease.
Curate in Leamington Spa
Vicar of Styvechale, Coventry
Vicar of Preston, Lancashire
Archdeacon of Lancaster
Principal of Ripon Hall, Oxford 1959 - 1968
Bishop of Pontefract 1968 - 71
Bishop of Sheffield 1971 – 79
Vice Chairman of the Church’s Central Board of Finance
Chaplain to the Queen
Clerk of the Closet
In 1974 it produced the Sheffield Report recommending a formula to calculate what proportion of available clergy each diocese should receive, known as the Sheffield Number. Although at the time it was "denounced by some critics as striking at the roots of the church" it remains in use as of 2008.
Gordon Fallows of Sheffield, John South. Peart-Binns, The Memoir Club.