È noto soprattutto come autore di libri di scacchi, ma anche libri di carattere storico. Harry Golombek ha scritto di lui: "Senza alcuna pretesa di essere un forte giocatore, ha fatto parte per molti anni della squadra di scacchi dell'Università di Oxford. Golombek considera A Century of British Chess come il suo miglior libro. Harry Golombek, Golombek's Encyclopedia of Chess, Crown Publishers, 1977, p. 292.

Tra i suoi libri più noti vi sono le biografie e partite di Paul Morphy (Morphy's Games of Chess, 1916), Rudolf Charousek (Charousek's Games of Chess, 1919) e Harry Nelson Pillsbury (Pillsbury's Chess Career, 1922).

Nel 1913 vinse una partita contro Capablanca in una simultanea su 28 scacchiere data dal grande campione cubano al City Club di Londra. Vedi la partita Capablanca–Sergeant su chessgames.com

Libri di scacchi Morphy's Games of Chess, G. Bell and Sons, London, 1916 (ristampato da Dover nel 1976) The Rice Memorial Chess Tournament, New York 1916, British Chess Magazine, Leeds, 1916 Charousek's Games of Chess, G. Bell and Sons, 1919 Pillsbury's Chess Career (with W. H. Watts), American Chess Bulletin, 1922 Morphy Gleanings, David McKay, Philadelphia, 1932 (Ristampato da Dover nel 1973 con il titolo The Unknown Morphy) Modern Chess Openings (5th ed.), with R. Griffith and J. H. White, Whitehead & Miller, London, 1933 (6th and 7th editions: 1939, 1946) A Century of British Chess, Hutchinson & Co., London; David McKay, Philadelphia, 1934 The Art of Chess Combination: A Guide for All Players of the Game, David McKay, Philadelphia, 1936 An Introduction to the Endgame at Chess, David McKay, Philadelphia, 1939

Altri libri Anne Boleyn: A Study, Hutchinson & Co., London, 1923 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 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 The Cathedral Church of Winchester; a Description of its Fabric and a Brief History of the Episcopal See, G. Bell & Sons, London, 1899 Cleopatra of Egypt, Antiquity's Queen of Romance, Hutchinson & Co., London, 1909 The Courtships of Catherine the Great, G. Bell & Sons, London, 1905. Dominant Women, Hutchinson & Co., London, 1929 The Empress Josephine, Napoleon's Enchantress, Hutchinson & Co., London 1908 Gamblers All, Hutchinson & Co., London, 1931 George, Prince and Regent, Hutchinson & Co., London, 1935 The Great Empress Dowager of China, Hutchinson & Co., London, 1910 Historic British Ghosts, Hutchinson & Co., London, 1936 The Last Empress of the French Being the Life of the Empress Eugenie, Wife of Napoleon III, T.W. Laurie, London, 1907 Liars and Fakers, Hutchinson & Co., 1925 The Life of Ann Boleyn, Hutchinson & Co., London, 1923 Little Jennings and Fighting Dick Talbot: a Life of the Duke and Duchess of Tyrconnel, Hutchinson & Co., London, 1913 Mrs. Jordan: Child of Nature, Hutchinson & Co., London, 1913 My Lady Castlemaine, Being a Life of Barbara Villiers, Countess of Castlemaine, D. Estes, Boston, 1911 The Princess Mathilde Bonaparte, S. Paul and Co., London, 1915 The Real Francis-Joseph, the Private Life of the Emperor of Austria, by Henri de Weindel and Sergeant, J. Long, London, 1909 Rogues and Scoundrels, Hutchinson & Co., London, 1924 The Ruler of Baroda: An Account of the Life and Work of the Maharaja Gaekwar, John Murray, London, 1928 Witches and Warlocks, Hutchinson & Co., London, 1936

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