Researching Philip Sergeant
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 | Did you know that in the 1881 UK census there were 1426 people with the Sergeant surname? In that year Sergeant was ranked number 2227 for popularity in the UK. |
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The name Philip means "lover of horses" and is of Greek origin.
Records of Philip Sergeant on Ancestry
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Philip Sergeant and the Sergeant Genealogy
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| Did you know that there are currently 1387 people with the Sergeant surname in the UK? Sergeant is now ranked number 2779 for popularity in the UK. |
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Some Famous People called Philip Sergeant
Philip Walsingham Sergeant
Philip Walsingham Sergeant (27 January 1872, Notting Hill, London – 20 October 1952) was a British professional writer on chess and popular historical subjects. 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 (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).
Harry Golombek writes that, "Without any pretensions to mastership, he represented Oxford University in the years 1892-5". 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.
He was a second cousin of Edward Guthlac Sergeant.
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