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Alaric Alexander Watts

Short Name: Alaric Alexander Watts
Full Name: Watts, Alaric Alexander, 1797-1864
Birth Year: 1797
Death Year: 1864

Watts, A. A., p. 1236, i. We find from Alaric Watts: A Narrative of his Life. By his son Alaric Alfred Watts, 2 vols., 1884, that the date of his birth was March 16, 1797, and of his death April 5, 1864.

--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)


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