biography
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Segrave, Sir Henry (O'Neal de Hane)
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pronunciation:
[seegrayv]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1896–1930)
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| biography:
| Motor-racing driver, born in Baltimore, Maryland, USA. He trained at Sandhurst Military Academy, and served in the Royal Flying Corps in World War 1. Wounded in 1916, he became technical secretary to the air minister. A leading post-war racing driver, he helped to design the Sunbeam car, in which he broke the land speed record at 203·9 mph, raising this to 231 mph in 1929. He was killed in his boat Miss England on L Windermere, on a trial run following one in which he had set a new world water speed record of 98·76 mph. He was knighted in 1929. |
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