Background
Rowland George Allanson Allanson-Winn was born in London and educated at Westminster School and Trinity College, Cambridge University.
Rowland George Allanson Allanson-Winn was born in London and educated at Westminster School and Trinity College, Cambridge University.
Trinity College; Westminster School. King"s College London.
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 solo author of Boxing (1889) in the same "All-England Series" (introduced by the boxer Bat Mullins) which was reprinted in 2006.
He was a widely travelled man and twice made the Hajj.
He became bankrupt in 1922. He was offered the throne of Albania in 1925, along with $500,000 and $50,000 per year 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.
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).