# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/philip-walsingham-sergeant
# Generated: 2026-08-14T08:00:39.291Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/philip-walsingham-sergeant"
name: "Philip Walsingham Sergeant"
slug: "philip-walsingham-sergeant"
description: "Philip Walsingham Sergeant 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, Rudolf Charousek, and Harry Nelson Pillsbury, and other important books such as A Century of British Chess (1934) and Championship Chess (1938)."
tagline: "British chess player (1872-1952)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Philip_W_Sergeant%2C_British_chess_writer.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1872-01-27"
deathDate: "1952-10-20"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           39.82
  momentum:             22.7027027027027
  historical:           5.471382666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Philip W. Sergeant"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A8_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%BA%D9%87%D8%A7%D9%85_%D8%B3%D8%B1%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AA"
    title: "فيليب والسينغهام سرجانت"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A8_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%AC%D9%87%D8%A7%D9%85_%D8%B3%D8%B1%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AA"
    title: "فيليب والسينجهام سرجانت"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B4%D0%B6%D0%B5%D0%BD%D1%82%2C_%D0%A4%D0%B8%D0%BB%D0%B8%D0%BF"
    title: "Сарджент, Филип"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Walsingham_Sergeant"
    title: "Philip Walsingham Sergeant"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_W._Sergeant"
    title: "Philip W. Sergeant"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2041122"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump