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See also:WATTS, See also:ALARIC See also:ALEXANDER (1797-1864) , See also:English journalist and poet, was the son of See also:John Mosley Watts and See also:grandson of See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
William Watts, a See also:Leicester physician of repute. After leaving school he made his living for a See also:short See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time by teaching, and in 1818 joined the See also:staff of the New Monthly See also:Magazine in See also:London, becoming about the same time a contributor to the See also:Literary See also:Gazette. In 1822 he was made editor of the See also:Leeds Intelligencer, in the columns of which he was one of the first to See also:advocate See also:measures for protecting workers in factories against accidents from machinery. In 1823 he published his first See also:volume of See also:verse, Poetical Sketches, and in 1824 he became the editor of the Literary Souvenir, of which he also became the proprietor two years later, and in the conduct of which he secured the co-operation of some of the most famous men of letters of the See also:period. In 1825 he went to See also:Manchester as editor of the Manchester See also:Courier, a position which he resigned a See also:year later; in 1827 he assisted in See also:founding the See also:Standard, of which the first editor was See also:Stanley Lees See also:Giffard; and in 1833 he started the See also:United Service Gazette, which he edited for several years. Watts was also interested in a number of provincial Conservative See also:newspapers which were not financially successful, and he became bankrupt in 185o, but was awarded a See also:civil service See also:pension by See also:Lord See also:Aberdeen in 1854. In 1856 he edited the first. edition of Men of the Time. Watts died in London on the 5th of See also:April 1864. In 1867 a collection of his poems was published in a
volume entitled The See also:Laurel and the See also:Lyre.
See A. A. Watts, Alaric Watts (2 vols., London, 1884).
End of Article: WATTS, ALARIC ALEXANDER (1797-1864)
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