“ His nonconformity precluded him from entering either of the universities, but in his sixteenth year he went to study at the nonconformist academy at Stoke Newington, of which the Rev. Thomas Rowe, minister of the Independent meeting at Girdlers’ Hall, was then president. ”

“ A memorial was also erected to him in Westminster Abbey, and a memorial hall, erected in his honour at Southampton, was opened in 1875.
Among the theological treatises of Watts, in addition to volumes of sermons, are Doctrine of the Trinity (1722) ; Discourses on the Love of God and its Influence on all the Passions (1729) ; Catechisms for Children and Youth (1730) ; Essays towards a Proof of a Separate State for Souls (1732) ; Essay on the Freedom of the Will (1732) ; Essay on the Strength and Weakness of Human Reason (1737) ; Essay on the Ruin and Recovery of Mankind (1740) ”