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Henry Segrave was a pioneer in land and water speed records, who set three land and one water record, and was the first to travel over 200 mph in a land vehicle. He died in 1930 in a water speed record attempt on Windermere, England.
Sep 18, 2024 · Sir Henry Segrave was an American-born English automobile and motorboat racer who set three world land speed records. Educated at Eton and Sandhurst, Segrave served with the Royal Air Force in World War I.
Sir Henry Segrave was both a racing driver and a world speed record holder. He won two full Grand Prix races between 1923 and 1924, and broke the world land speed record three times and the world water speed record once, becoming the first person to hold both records concurrently.
Henry O’Neal de hane Segrave (22 September 1896 – 13 June 1930) was famous for setting three land speed records and the water speed record. He was the first person to hold both the land and water speed records simultaneously. He was the first person to travel at over 200 mph (320 km/h).
Sir Henry O'Neal de Hane Segrave, an Anglo-American automobile and boat racer, holds the distinction of setting three land speed records and one water speed record, becoming the first person to achieve such feats on both land and water.
Segrave, Sir Henry O’Neal de Hane (1896–1930), land and water speed record-holder, was born in Baltimore, Maryland, on 22 December 1896, the only child of Charles William Segrave, Anglo-Irish landowner of co. Wicklow, later of co. Tipperary, and his first wife, Mary Lucy, daughter of James Kemp Harwood, officer in the US Navy; she died in 1898.
Sir Henry Segrave is one of the legendary figures from the heroic age of speed; fighter pilot, racing driver, Land Speed Record holder and power boat racer. Two of his Land Speed Record cars, the 1927 1,000hp Sunbeam and the 1929 Irving Napier Special ‘Golden Arrow’ are on display in the National Motor Museum.
