Alaric Alfred Watts
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Alaric Alfred Watts (18 February 1825 – 22 January 1901), best known as A. A. Watts, was a British government clerk, spiritualist and writer.
He was educated at University College School and worked as a clerk at the Inland Revenue Office.[1] He was the son of Alaric Alexander Watts. In 1859 he married Anna Mary Howitt.[2] Watts was a convinced spiritualist.[3] In 1882 with his friend William Stainton Moses, he formed The Ghost Club.[4][5] He was a member of the London Spiritualist Alliance.[6]
Watts was member of the Society for Psychical Research. He resigned after some of its members such as Eleanor Sidgwick dismissed the medium William Eglinton as fraudulent.[7]
Watts was also a poet, publishing, jointly with his wife, a volume entitled Aurora: a volume of verse.[8]
