Hallows was educated at
Felsted School and
Keble College, Oxford (University of Oxford). Hallows represented
Great Britain at the 1908 Summer Olympics in London and won the bronze medal and set an
Olympic record in the
1500 metres race. His time in the first round was 4:03.4, beating the Olympic record set by American
Mel Sheppard only minutes earlier by 1.6 seconds. In the final, Sheppard matched Hallows' first round time while Hallows finished in third place at 4:04.0. Hallows was also a member of the 3 miles team race with
Joe Deakin,
Arthur Robertson,
William Coales and
Harold Wilson, which claimed the gold medal at the same games. Hallows studied at
Leeds University, and
St Thomas' Hospital in London. He took part in the
Balkan Wars of 1912–13 as a
Red Cross staff and later in
World War I, as a Captain of the
Royal Army Medical Corps in France. In 1919 he was appointed as the resident Medical Officer at
Marlborough College. Using the pen name "Duplex" he co-wrote several books on engineering. == References ==