Gordon Fallows
William Gordon Fallows
Personal life and education
Fallows was born in 1913 in
Ministry positions
Curate in Leamington Spa
Vicar of Preston, Lancashire
Archdeacon of Lancaster
Principal of
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
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. 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"[4] it remains in use as of 2008.
Biography
Gordon Fallows of Sheffield, John S. Peart-Binns, The Memoir Club