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    Sir Henry O'Neal de Hane Segrave (22 September 1896 – 13 June 1930) was an early British pioneer in land speed and water speed records. Segrave, who set...
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    1321. Henry Segrave, Knt. Geoffrey Segrave, Knt., Sheriff of Leicestershire in 1307 Simon Segrave Gilbert Segrave, Bishop of London Stephen Segrave Archdeacon...
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  • actress and singer Gilbert Segrave (1266–1316), bishop of London from 1313 to 1316, son of Nicholas, 1st Baron Segrave Henry Segrave (1896–1930), water and...
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    Britain to regain the world land speed record from the United States. Henry Segrave drove the car at 231.45 mph (372.46 km/h) in March 1929 on Daytona Beach...
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    Miss England II was the second of a series of speedboats used by Henry Segrave and Kaye Don to contest world water speed records in the 1920s and 1930s...
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    northern end of the street. Notable residents of the street have included Henry Segrave the world land speed record holder in the 1920s, who is now commemorated...
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    Nicholas Segrave, 1st Baron Segrave (d. 1295) John Segrave, 2nd Baron Segrave (1256–1325) Stephen Segrave, 3rd Baron Segrave (d. 1326) John Segrave, 4th Baron...
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    Against the Clock, The World Land Speed Record, Robert B. Jackson (New York, Henry Z. Walck, Inc.), p.19, ISBN 0-8098-2078-1 [1] Archived July 25, 2009, at...
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    the land speed record from the British, then shared in a duel between Henry Segrave and Malcolm Campbell. No suitable engines were available to give a sufficient...
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    speed record holder) Sir Henry Segrave as a twin-engine four-seat touring monoplane. A wooden prototype, designated Saro Segrave Meteor I was built by Saunders...
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    water record to Britain. Famed land speed racer and racing driver Sir Henry Segrave was hired to pilot a new boat, Miss England. Although the boat was not...
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  • Prix in both 1923 and 1924. The green Sunbeams driven by the likes of Henry Segrave and K.L Guinness were during prominent competitions. In the 1920s Bentley...
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    unavailable to the middle-class finally became available. In 1929, driver Henry Segrave reached a record land speed of 231.44 mph in his car, the Golden Arrow...
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    design closely resembling the previous year's Fiat, to take the victory. Henry Segrave became the first Briton, and Sunbeam the first British manufacturer...
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    Elizabeth de Segrave (born 25 October 1338 at Croxton Abbey), suo jure 5th Baroness Segrave, daughter and heiress of John de Segrave, 4th Baron Segrave (d. 1353)...
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  • Bachelor (born 1945) Sir Henry Cecil (2011, Knight Bachelor, 1943–2013) Sir Tony McCoy (2016, Knight Bachelor, born 1974) Sir Henry Segrave (1929, Knight Bachelor...
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    and Grand Prix motor racing was established at Brooklands in 1926 by Henry Segrave, after his victories in the 1923 French Grand Prix and the San Sebastián...
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    relies entirely on donations from the general public. On 21 March 1926, Henry Segrave set the land speed record in his 4-litre Sunbeam Tiger Ladybird on the...
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    83 km circuit for a total distance of just under 800 km and was won by Henry Segrave driving a Sunbeam. This race is notable as the first Grand Épreuve to...
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    various land and water speed records by such racing personalities as Sir Henry Segrave, Sir Malcolm Campbell and his son Donald, the last record being set...
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    Thomas, André Boillot and Brooklands regulars Kenelm Lee Guinness and Henry Segrave - while another STD entrant, alcohol heir André Dubonnet, switched to...
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  • request of Henry of Grosmont, in order to prevent 'disputes between the parents'. John de Segrave died around 1353, making Elizabeth de Segrave the 5th Baroness...
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    John Segrave, 4th Baron Segrave (4 May 1315 – 1 April 1353) was an English peer and landowner in Leicestershire and Yorkshire. His family title of Baron...
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    motor racing first came to Britain in 1926, following the successes of Henry Segrave in winning the 1923 French Grand Prix and the San Sebastián Grand Prix...
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    "piloted" from the ground by future world aerial speed record holder Henry Segrave. Low's systems encoded the command transmissions as a countermeasure...
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    writer and poet (2 March 1930) "How are the lads? Did we do it?" — Henry Segrave, British land speed and water speed record pioneer (13 June 1930), mortally...
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    outpaced by Briton Henry Segrave in a supercharged Sunbeam, supercharging being a common feature of Grand Prix cars during this period. Segrave won the race...
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  • second and third place, making it a Talbot 1–2–3, Divo–Jules Moriceau–Henry Segrave. This was short lived, however, as when Moriceau braked for the first...
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    Sunbeam entered three of their 1924 cars including one for 1923 winner Henry Segrave. Parry Thomas' entry was taken over by the non-starting 1.5 litre Eldridge...
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  • withdrew. This left the Talbot team as the overwhelming favourites, with Henry Segrave, George Duller and Conte Caberto Conelli. They were joined by racing...
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