Remembering Philip Walsingham Sergeant (27-i-1872 20-x-1952)

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Remembering Philip Walsingham Sergeant (27-i-1872 20-x-1952)

Post by John Upham » Wed Oct 20, 2021 2:11 pm

BCN remembers Philip Walsingham Sergeant (27-i-1872 20-x-1952)

https://britishchessnews.com/2020/10/20 ... -sergeant/



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Re: Remembering Philip Walsingham Sergeant (27-i-1872 20-x-1952)

Post by John Townsend » Wed Oct 20, 2021 3:24 pm

The article states, "It would appear that BCM did not publish an obituary of PWS."

In fact, Edward Winter's C.N. 1268 discussed the brief obituary, which did appear. The item is on pages 171-172 of Winter's Kings, Commoners and Knaves and is also in his feature article "Chess Jottings".

The obituary is listed in Gaige's Chess Personalia.

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Re: Remembering Philip Walsingham Sergeant (27-i-1872 20-x-1952)

Post by John Upham » Wed Oct 20, 2021 3:49 pm

John Townsend wrote:
Wed Oct 20, 2021 3:24 pm
The article states, "It would appear that BCM did not publish an obituary of PWS."

In fact, Edward Winter's C.N. 1268 discussed the brief obituary, which did appear. The item is on pages 171-172 of Winter's Kings, Commoners and Knaves and is also in his feature article "Chess Jottings".

The obituary is listed in Gaige's Chess Personalia.
I am grateful for your correction and here is that obituary:
We regret to have to report the death, at the age of eighty-one of Philip W. Sergeant, the author of A Century of British Chess, which we imagine is in most chess libraries. He was the author of several well-known historical books - but we are only concerned here with his chess activities, which included representing Oxford University 1892-5; helping RC Griffith with two editions of Modern Chess Openings; playing for Middlesex, winning the chess championship of the authors' club for several year, and latterly as an honoured member; and occasionally obtaining the championship of the Guildford Chess Club. Our sympathy with his widow and two daughters is sincere
I'm struggling to account for not finding this. Doh!
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Post by Tim Harding » Thu Oct 21, 2021 11:46 am

For your future reference, Gaige's Chess Personalia has an appendix listing alphabetically all the BCM obituary notices published up to 1986.
(I cannot vouch for its completeness because some notices were only a sentence or two long.)

The Sergeants are listed.

ADDED LATER: It's a bit odd that you say early in the article that you don't know whether he played in the varsity matches when later on you quote two sources saying correctly that he did. This is a consequence of your cut-and-paste methodology, I think.

In fact, since you show the cover of A Century of British Chess, you possibly have access to a copy?
It has lists of the Oxford-Cambridge matches in the early decades. Turn to page 349.
1892 match. Sergeant lost on board 7; 1893 on board 3 he got his revenge against the same opponent, J. H. Percival.
1894 Sergeant drew on board 3 with H. J. Snowden and 1895 he was Oxford captain and lost on board 2 to Snowden, then the Cambridge captain.
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