This is the first major biography of Rowland Allanson-Winn, the Anglo-Irish peer Lord Headley, a civil engineer who converted to Islam in 1913. Jamie Gilham tells the fascinating story of how Headley both played an important part in the institutionalization of Islam in Britain and came to be known throughout the world as a leading British Muslim. Essential reading for those interested in the growth of Islam in the West.

Francis Robinson, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK

This timely tribute to Headley's legacy challenges stereotypes about British Islam as a mainly migrant phenomenon.

Clinton Bennett, State University of New York at New Paltz, USA

Jamie Gilham has brilliantly reconstructed the life of Lord Headley against the background of the history of Muslims in Great Britain in the colonial age. I thought I knew the story well. But in this fascinating journey Jamie Gilham recreates Headley's riveting and rich historical account which makes the book an essential reading for general readers and specialists.

Amr Ryad, Professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies, University of Leuven, Belgium