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{{Short description|British professional writer}}
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'''Philip Walsingham Sergeant''' (27 January 1872, [[Notting Hill]], [[London]]<ref name="Births, Marriages and Deaths">Births, Marriages and Deaths</ref> – 20 October 1952)<ref>[[Jeremy Gaige]], ''Chess Personalia: A Biobibliography'', McFarland, 1987, p. 385. {{ISBN|0-7864-2353-6}}.</ref> was a British professional writer on chess and popular historical subjects.<ref name="Golombekp.292">[[Harry Golombek]], ''Golombek's Encyclopedia of Chess'', Crown Publishers, 1977, p. 292.</ref><ref name="Oxfordp.365">[[David Hooper (chess player)|David Hooper]] and [[Kenneth Whyld]], ''The Oxford Companion to Chess'' (2nd ed. 1992), p. 365. {{ISBN|0-19-866164-9}}.</ref> He collaborated on the fifth (1933), sixth (1939), and seventh (1946) editions of ''[[Modern Chess Openings]]'', an important [[reference work]] on the [[chess opening]]s. He also wrote biographical game collections of [[Paul Morphy]] (''Morphy's Games of Chess'' (1916) and ''Morphy Gleanings'' (1932)), [[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).<ref name="Golombekp.292"/><ref name="Oxfordp.365"/>

[[Harry Golombek]] writes that, "Without any pretensions to [[chess master|mastership]], he represented [[Oxford University]] in the years 1892-5".<ref name="Golombekp.292"/> 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.<ref name="Golombekp.292"/>

He was a second cousin of [[Edward Guthlac Sergeant]].<ref name="Births, Marriages and Deaths"/>

==Chess books==
Sergeant wrote or co-wrote the following chess books.<ref name="WorldCat">[http://www.worldcat.org/search?q=au%3APhilip+Walsingham+Sergeant&fq=&start=1&qt=back2results Search results for "au:Philip Walsington Sergeant'].</ref> The [[ISBN]], where given, refers to that assigned to a later republication of the book by Dover Publications.

*''The Art of Chess Combination: A Guide for All Players of the Game'', by Eugene Znosko-Borovsky and Sergeant (translator), David McKay, 1936. OCLC 6068811.
*''A Century of British Chess'', Hutchinson & Co., London, and David McKay, Philadelphia, 1934. OCLC 1835573, 5785804.
*''Championship Chess'', 1938. {{ISBN|0-486-21012-X}}.
*''Charousek's Games of Chess'', G. Bell and Sons, 1919. {{ISBN|0-486-25832-7}}.
*''An Introduction to the Endgame at Chess'', Chatto and Windus, London, and David McKay, Philadelphia, 1939. OCLC 3354712.
*''[[Modern Chess Openings]]'' (5th ed.), [[Richard Griffith (chess player)|R. C. Griffith]] and [[John Herbert White|J. H. White]], Completely Revised by Sergeant, Griffith, and M. E. Goldstein, published by Whitehead & Miller, 1933.
*''Modern Chess Openings'' (6th ed.), R. C. Griffith and J. H. White, Completely Revised by [[Reuben Fine]], Griffith, and Sergeant, published by Whitehead & Miller, 1939.
*''Modern Chess Openings'' (7th ed.), R. C. Griffith and Sergeant, Completely Revised by [[Walter Korn|W. Korn]], published by Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons, 1946.
*''Morphy Gleanings'', David McKay, 1932. Reprinted by Dover in 1973 as ''The Unknown Morphy''. {{ISBN|0-486-22952-1}}.
*''Morphy's Games of Chess'', G. Bell and Sons. {{ISBN|0-486-20386-7}}.
*''Pillsbury's Chess Career'' (with W. H. Watts), American Chess Bulletin, 1922. {{ISBN|0-486-21543-1}}.
*''The Rice Memorial Chess Tournament, New York, 1916'', British Chess Magazine, Leeds, American Chess Bulletin, 1916. OCLC 5634454. OCLC 42985251 (2d ed., British Chess Magazine, 1968).

==Other books==
Sergeant wrote or co-wrote the following books on subjects other than chess.<ref name="WorldCat"/><ref>A similar but slightly more comprehensive list is given by [[Edward Winter (chess historian)|Edward Winter]], [http://www.chesshistory.com/winter/winter54.html#5942._Earliest_photograph_of_a_chess 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.</ref> 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.

*''Anne Boleyn: A Study'', Hutchinson & Co., London, 1923. OCLC 59642584.
*''Behind the Scenes at the Court of Vienna : the Private Life of the Emperor of Austria from Information by a Distinguished Personage at Court'', by Henri de Weindel and Sergeant, John Long, London, and Musson Book Co., Toronto, 1914. {{ISBN|978-0-665-98808-0}}.
*''The Burlesque Napoleon; Being the Story of the Life and the Kingship of Jerome Napoleon Bonaparte, Youngest Brother of Napoleon the Great'', T.W. Laurie, London, 1905. OCLC 2580051.
*''The Cathedral Church of Winchester; a Description of its Fabric and a Brief History of the Episcopal See'', G. Bell & Sons, London, 1899. OCLC 228662417.
*''Cleopatra of Egypt, Antiquity's Queen of Romance'', Hutchinson & Co., London, 1909. OCLC 5659331.
*''The Courtships of Catherine the Great'', G. Bell & Sons, London, 1905. OCLC 7222919.
*''Dominant Women'', Hutchinson & Co., London, 1929. {{ISBN|978-0-8369-1155-8}}.
*''The Empress Josephine, Napoleon's Enchantress'', Hutchinson & Co., London 1908. OCLC 5785897.
*''Gamblers All'', Hutchinson & Co., London, 1931. OCLC 221288958.
*''George, Prince and Regent'', Hutchinson & Co., London, 1935. OCLC 185186351.
*''The Great Empress Dowager of China'', Hutchinson & Co., London, 1910. OCLC 2067404.
*''Historic British Ghosts'', Hutchinson & Co., London, 1936. {{ISBN|978-0-85409-996-2}}.
*''The Last Empress of the French Being the Life of the Empress Eugenie, Wife of Napoleon III'', T.W. Laurie, London; J.B. Lippincott Co., Philadelphia, ''c.'' 1907 OCLC 271179572.
*''Liars and Fakers'', Hutchinson & Co., 1925. OCLC 34331916.
*''The Life of Ann Boleyn'', Hutchinson & Co., London, 1923. OCLC 9346521.
*''Little Jennings and Fighting Dick Talbot: a Life of the Duke and Duchess of Tyrconnel'', Hutchinson & Co., London, 1913. OCLC 223214364.
*''Mrs. Jordan: Child of Nature'', Hutchinson & Co., London, 1913. OCLC 2699596.
*''My Lady Castlemaine, Being a Life of Barbara Villiers, Countess of Castlemaine, Afterwards Duchess of Cleveland'', D. Estes, Boston, 1911. OCLC 14029496.
*''The Princess Mathilde Bonaparte'', S. Paul and Co., London, 1915. OCLC 1907037.
*''The Real Francis-Joseph, the Private Life of the Emperor of Austria'', by Henri de Weindel and Sergeant, J. Long, London, and D. Appleton & Co., New York, 1909. OCLC 3990561.
*''Rogues and Scoundrels'', Hutchinson & Co., London, 1924. OCLC 2737428.
*''The Ruler of Baroda: An Account of the Life and Work of the Maharaja Gaekwar'', John Murray, London, 1928. OCLC 228676095.
*''Witches and Warlocks'', Hutchinson & Co., London, 1936. {{ISBN|978-0-7158-1028-6}}.

==References==
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==External links==
* {{Gutenberg author | id=9240| name=Philip Walsingham Sergeant}}
* {{Internet Archive author |sname=Philip Walsingham Sergeant}}

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