with George Holyoake and George Foote, formed the British Secular Union, a short-lived rival group. Watts became editor of the Secular Review founded by Holyoake. In 1882, he travelled for the first time to the United States to lecture, and also visited Canada, where he was invited to take up residence. He emigrated to Toronto in 1883, leaving his son Charles Albert Watts in charge of his publishing interests in Britain. Charles Watts then became the leader of the secularist movement in Canada, founding and editing Secular Thought in Toronto, and also regularly went on lecture tours of the US. He returned in 1891 to England (upon Bradlaugh's death), where his son had by then established the periodical Watts's Literary Guide (the forerunner of the New Humanist magazine) to promote secularist activities. Charles Watts rejoined the NSS and continued lecturing, as well as cooperating with Foote on the journal, The Freethinker. He returned to the US and Canada, with Foote, to lecture in 1896, and again visited the US in 1899. He died in England in 1906 at the age of 70 and is buried in a family grave on the eastern side of Highgate Cemetery. His son, Charles Albert Watts, who was later buried with him, remained active in the secularist movement, helping to develop the Rationalist Press Association. Selected publications Evolution and Special Creation (1860) Christianity & Secularism: Which is the Better Suited to Meet the Wants of Mankind? (1882) The Origin, Nature and Destiny of Man (1893) References 1836 births 1906 deaths Burials at Highgate Cemetery British secularists English agnostics English humanists English sceptics Freethought writers