Philip Walsingham Sergeant

Philip W. Sergeant
Full name Philip Walsingham Sergeant
Country  England
Born (1872-01-27)27 January 1872
Notting Hill, London, England
Died 20 October 1952(1952-10-20) (aged 80)
Guildford, England

Philip Walsingham Sergeant (27 January 1872, Notting Hill, London[1] – 20 October 1952)[2] was a British professional writer on chess and popular historical subjects.[3][4] He collaborated on the fifth (1933), sixth (1939), and seventh (1946) editions of Modern Chess Openings, an important reference work on the chess openings. He also wrote biographical game collections of Paul Morphy (Morphy's Games of Chess (1916) and Morphy Gleanings), Rudolf Charousek (Charousek's Games of Chess (1919)), and Harry Nelson Pillsbury (Pillsbury's Chess Career, with W. H. Watts, 1922), and other important books such as A Century of British Chess (1934) and Championship Chess (1938).[3][4]

Harry Golombek writes that, "Without any pretensions to mastership, he represented Oxford University in the years 1892-5".[3] Golombek considers A Century of British Chess probably Sergeant's best chess book, but opines that although Sergeant's chess books are lucidly written, they suffer from the defect that, as a non-master, he was not competent to deal with the annotational aspect of his work.[3]

He was a second cousin of Edward Guthlac Sergeant.[1]

Chess books

Sergeant wrote or co-wrote the following chess books.[5] The ISBN, where given, refers to that assigned to a later republication of the book by Dover Publications.

Other books

Sergeant wrote or co-wrote the following books on subjects other than chess.[5][6] As in the previous section, the date of earliest known publication is given. The ISBN, where available, refers to that assigned to a later republication of the book.

References

  1. 1 2 Births, Marriages and Deaths
  2. Jeremy Gaige, Chess Personalia: A Biobibliography, McFarland, 1987, p. 385. ISBN 0-7864-2353-6.
  3. 1 2 3 4 Harry Golombek, Golombek's Encyclopedia of Chess, Crown Publishers, 1977, p. 292.
  4. 1 2 David Hooper and Kenneth Whyld, The Oxford Companion to Chess (2nd ed. 1992), p. 365. ISBN 0-19-866164-9.
  5. 1 2 Search results for "au:Philip Walsington Sergeant'.
  6. A similar but slightly more comprehensive list is given by Edward Winter, Chess Note 5943 P.W. Sergeant's non-chess books. Retrieved on 2012-01-10. Winter's list contains multiple editions of some of these books, such as a 2-volume set of The Empress Napoleon and a "Standard Lives" edition of the same book, both published in 1908.

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