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Rowland George Allanson Allanson-Winn, 5th Baron Headley (19 January 1855 – 22 June 1935), also known as Shaikh Rahmatullah al-Farooq, was an Irish peer and a prominent convert to Islam, who was also one of the leading members of the Woking Muslim Mission alongside Khwaja Kamal-ud-Din. He also presided over the British Muslim Society for some time.〔http://www.wokingmuslim.org/pers/〕 ==Biography== Rowland George Allanson Allanson-Winn was born in London and educated at Westminster School and Trinity College, Cambridge University.〔''The New International Yearbook'', 1936〕 He then entered Middle Temple, before commencing studies at King's College London. He subsequently became a civil engineer by profession, a builder of roads in India, and an authority on the protection of intertidal zones. He was an enthusiastic practitioner of boxing as well as other arts of self-defence, and in 1890 co-authored, with C. Phillipps-Wolley, the classic ''Broad-sword and Singlestick'' (1890).〔R. G. Allanson-Winn & C. Phillipps-Wolley, ''Broad-sword and Single-stick: with chapters on quarter-staff, bayonet, cudgel, shillalah, walking-stick, umbrella, and other weapons of self-defence'' (All-England Series.) London: George Bell, 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.〔http://www.amazon.com/Boxing-Prefatory-Note-Bat-Mullins/dp/054397023X for the reprinted version of the book〕 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''.〔(Headley's book: A Western Awakening to Islam ) at wokingmuslim.org〕 He was a widely travelled man and twice made the Hajj. He inherited his peerage from his cousin in 1913. In 1921 he married the Australian author Barbara Baynton.〔Australian Dictionary of Biography〕 He became bankrupt in 1922.〔(Baynton, Barbara Jane (1857 - 1929) Biographical Entry - Australian Dictionary of Biography Online ) at www.adb.online.anu.edu.au〕 He was offered the throne of Albania in 1925, along with $500,000 and $50,000 per year〔Time magazine, "London's Mosque" 28 June 1937〕 but refused it, at which point Lady Headley returned to Melbourne, where she died in 1929.〔 From 1929 Headley owned and lived at Ashton Gifford House near the village of Codford in Wiltshire. His widow Lady Catherine Headley continued to live at the property until 1940.〔''Dod's Peerage'', 1942〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Rowland Allanson-Winn, 5th Baron Headley」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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