Rowland Allanson-Winn, 5th Baron Headley
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and a prominent convert to Islam
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, who was also one of the leading members of the Woking Muslim Mission
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The Woking Muslim Mission was founded in 1913 by Khwaja Kamal-ud-Din at the Mosque in Woking, 30 miles southwest of London and was managed by members of the Lahore Ahmadiyya Movement . It was run by Lahore Ahmadiyya missionaries until the mid-1960s.- Woking Mosque :The Woking Mosque was built by...
alongside Khwaja Kamal-ud-Din
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. He also presided over the British Muslim Society for some time.
Biography
Rowland George Allanson Allanson-Winn was born in LondonLondon
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and educated at Westminster School
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and Trinity College
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, Cambridge University. He then entered Middle Temple
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, before commencing studies at King's College London
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. He subsequently became a civil engineer
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by profession, a builder of roads in India, and an authority on the protection of intertidal zone
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He was an enthusiastic practitioner of boxing
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as well as other arts of self defence, and in 1890 co-authored, with C. Phillipps-Wolley, the classic Broad-sword
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and Singlestick
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(1890). He was solo author of Boxing (1889) in the same "All-England Series" (introduced by the boxer Bat Mullins) which was reprinted in 2006.
Lord Headley embraced Islam on 16 November 1913 and adopted the Muslim name of Shaikh Rahmatullah al-Farooq. In 1914 he established the British Muslim Society. He was the author of several books on Islam, including A Western Awakening to Islam (1914) and Three Great Prophets of the World. He was a widely traveled man and twice made the Hajj
Hajj
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.
He inherited his peerage from his cousin in 1913. In 1921 he married the Australia
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n author Barbara Baynton
Barbara Baynton
Barbara Janet Ainsleigh Baynton, Lady Headley was an Australian writer, made famous for Bush Studies which was written in retaliation to Henry Lawson's works.- Life :...
. He became bankrupt in 1922. He was offered the throne of Albania
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in 1925, along with $500,000 and $50,000 per year but refused it, at which point Lady Headley returned to Melbourne
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, where she died in 1929. From 1929 Lord Headley owned and lived at Ashton Gifford House
Ashton Gifford House
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near the village of Codford
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in Wiltshire
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. His widow Lady Catherine Headley continued to live at the property until 1940.
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