Background
Sergel was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, the son of missionaries.
Sergel was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, the son of missionaries.
He attended Monkton Combe School and Clare College, Cambridge.
He again represented the winning Cambridge crew in the Boat Race in 1933 when he was president In 1937 Sergel qualified as a doctor at Street Mary"s Hospital and after working for a year in hospitals he went to Uganda in 1938 as a missionary. In the following year, after the outbreak of World World War II he joined the medical corps in East Africa and served throughout the war becoming a major.
After the war Sergel returned as a surgeon to Mengo Hospital in Kampala and as a Christian missionary doctor in the villages.
He left Africa in 1952 and returned to England where he became a Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons and went into general practice at Great Shelford, Cambridgeshire. He coached the crews at Clare College and took up sailing.
Sergel retired in 1976 to Milford-on-Sea where he kept his boat. When he decided to give up his boat, he took a farewell journey and in the course of it died of a heart attack.
Sergel married Elizabeth Joan Stileman in 1947 and had two daughters.
In 1931 and 1932 he was a member of the winning Cambridge boats in the Boat Race.