Alaric Alfred Watts

Alaric Alfred Watts, 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. He was the son of Alaric Alexander Watts. In 1859 he married Anna Mary Howitt. Watts was a convinced spiritualist. In 1882 with his friend William [Stainton Moses], he formed The Ghost Club. He was a member of the London Spiritualist Alliance.
Watts was member of the Society for Psychical Research. He resigned after some of its members such as Eleanor [Mildred Sidgwick|Eleanor Sidgwick] dismissed the medium William Eglinton as fraudulent.
Watts was also a poet, publishing, jointly with his wife, a volume entitled Aurora: a volume of verse.

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