Background
Watts, Alan Wilson was born on January 6, 1915 in Chislehurst, England. Son of Laurence Wilson and Emily Mary (Buchan) Watts.
Watts, Alan Wilson was born on January 6, 1915 in Chislehurst, England. Son of Laurence Wilson and Emily Mary (Buchan) Watts.
Student King’s School, Canterbury, England, 1928-1932. School of Theology and Ministry, Seabury-Western Theological Seminary, Evanston, Illinois, 1948. Doctor of Divinity, University Vermont, 1958.
; children—Joan Watts-Tabernik, Ann (Mistress Joel Andrews). Married second, Dorothy DeWitt, June 29, 1950 (division 1963). Children—Tia, Mark, Richard, Lila, Diane.
Married 3d, Mary Jane Yates King, December 4, 1963.
Came to the United States, 1938, naturalized, 1943. Editor, The Middle Way, London, England., 1934-1938.
Religious counselor, also Episcopal chaplain Northwestern University, 1944-1950. Professor comparative philosophy American Academy Asian Studies, U. Pacific, San Francisco, 1951-1957, dean, 1953-1956.
Independent writer and lecturer.
Guest lecturer at universities, United States, Canada, Europe, Japan, Ceylon, also C.G. Jung Institute, Switzerland, and other psychiatric and mental health institutions Company-editor Wisdom of the East series, 1938-1941. Program series Eastern Wisdom and Modern Life, National Ednl. television, 1959.
Research consultant Maryland.
Psychiatric Research Center, 1969.
Member council, Executive Committee World Congress of Faiths, 1937-1939. Bollingen Foundation research fellow, 1951-1953, 62-64. Member American Oriental Society, Society for Comparative Philosophy (president).
Married Eleanor Everett, April. Married second, Dorothy DeWitt, June 29, 1950 (divorced 1963). Married 3d, Mary Jane Yates King, December 4, 1963.
Children: Joan Watts-Tabernik, Ann (Mistress Joel Andrews).