Background
Mallows was born in Chelsea, London and spent his childhood at Flatford Mill, East Bergholt, Suffolk where his uncle ran the mill.
Mallows was born in Chelsea, London and spent his childhood at Flatford Mill, East Bergholt, Suffolk where his uncle ran the mill.
He studied in Bedford and London.
He is considered to be part of the Arts and Craft movement in British art In 1895 he opened an office in Bedford with George Grocock and worked in the Arts and Crafts tradition designing cottages, schools, shops and restoring churches. He was made a fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects in 1900 and by the following year was the diocesan surveyor for Ely.
Mallows rented rooms adjoining those of the landscape architect Thomas Hayton Mawson, and occasionally worked with him.
He died in 1915 at Biddenham, Bedfordshire leaving an estate of nearly £3,000.