Baron Rowland George Allanson-Winn Headley

Born in London on January 19, 1855, Rowland Allanson-Winn later became the 5th Baron Headley. He studied at Westminster School, Trinity College, Cambridge, and King's College London, and worked as a civil engineer, including road-building work in India and projects connected with harbors and coastal protection.

He also wrote, most notably a book on boxing, which helped give him a place in sporting as well as technical circles. Alongside his engineering career, he published scientific treatises and pamphlets.

Later in life he became a prominent convert to Islam, taking the name Shaikh Rahmatullah al-Farooq. He was closely associated with the Woking Muslim Mission and became one of the most visible Muslim public figures in Britain and Ireland of his era. He died on June 22, 1935, in Codford, Wiltshire.