Baron Segrave

Baron Segrave is a title in the Peerage of England. It was created by writ in 1295 for Nicholas de Segrave. The sixth Baron Segrave had previously succeeded to the title of Baron Mowbray, and thereafter the two baronies have remained united with two exceptions. In 1831 the Segrave Barony was given to Col. William Berkeley, later created first Earl FitzHardinge, and became extinct when he died in 1857. The two baronies were also briefly separated in the nineteenth century, when both titles were in abeyance, and the barony of Segrave was called out of abeyance about two weeks after the barony of Mowbray. Both titles, however, were given to the same person, the twentieth Baron Stourton, and they have remained united since.