Alfred Mellows

Who was Alfred Mellows?

Alfred Paul Mellows DFC was an English rower who competed for Great Britain in the 1948 Summer Olympics.

Mellows was born in Croydon, the son of Alfred John Mellows and his wife Edith Dean. He was educated at Monkton Combe School and at Cambridge University, and was a contemporary of fellow Olympic rower Michael Lapage at both places. He was bowman in the winning Cambridge boat in the 1947 Boat Race and took the same position with the record-breaking Cambridge crew in the 1948 race. In 1948, he was a crew member of the British boat which won the silver medal rowing at the 1948 Summer Olympics in the men's eights.

Mellows died at Addlestone, Surrey at the age of 75.