He is also known for having chaired the working party which produced the "Sheffield Report" used to allocate clergy numbers between the dioceses of the Church of England.
He attended Barrow Grammar School and then St Edmund Hall, Oxford.
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[3] Vice Chairman Church of England Pensions Board Chaplain to the Queen Clerk of the Closet 1975 – 79 Fallows chaired the Clergy Deployment Commission, created to address the concentration of Church of England clergy in London and the south-east of England.
Although at the time it was "denounced by some critics as striking at the roots of the church"[4] it remains in use as of 2008.
Gordon Fallows of Sheffield, John S. Peart-Binns, The Memoir Club ISBN 978-1-84104-183-4