Edward Guthlac Sergeant was an English chess

Chess

Chess is a two-player board game played on a chessboard, a square-checkered board with 64 squares arranged in an eight-by-eight grid. It is one of the world's most popular games, played by millions of people worldwide at home, in clubs, online, by correspondence, and in tournaments.Each player...

 master.

He participated many times in British Chess Championship

British Chess Championship

The British Chess Championship is organised by the English Chess Federation. There are separate championships for men and women. Since 1923 there have been sections for juniors, and since 1982 there has been an over-sixty championship. The championship venue usually changes every year and has been...

, London City championships, and Hastings International Chess Congress

Hastings International Chess Congress

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. In 1907, he tied for 2nd-5th in London (British-ch, Henry Ernest Atkins

Henry Ernest Atkins

Henry Ernest Atkins was a British chess master who is best known for his unparalleled record of winning the British Chess Championship nine times in eleven attempts. He won every year from 1905 to 1911, and again in 1924 and 1925...

 won). He won or shared 1st at London 1913, London 1915/16 (won a playoff match against Theodor Germann

Theodor Germann

Theodor Germann was a Latvian chess master.He tied for 6-8th at Riga 1899 , took 5th at Riga 1900, took 6th at Dorpat 1901 , tied for 6-7th at Riga 1902, tied for 3-4th at Reval 1904, tied for 6-7th at Riga 1907, and tied for 8-9th at Reval 1909.In 1910s, he lived in...

), London 1916, Hastings 1919 (Minor), Bromley 1920, and Broadstairs 1921. He tied for 2nd-3rd with Harry Golombek

Harry Golombek

Harry Golombek OBE , was a British chess International Master and honorary grandmaster, chess arbiter, and chess author. He was three times British chess champion, in 1947, 1949, and 1955 and finished second in 1948. He became a grandmaster in 1985.He was the chess correspondent of The Times...

 at Brighton 1938 (British-ch, Conel Hugh O'Donel Alexander

Conel Hugh O'Donel Alexander

Conel Hugh O'Donel Alexander, CMG, CBE was an Irish-born British cryptanalyst, chess player, and chess writer. He worked on the German Enigma machine at Bletchley Park during World War II, and was later the head of the cryptanalysis division at GCHQ for over 20 years...

 won).

He was a cousin of Philip Walsingham Sergeant.