Albert Durrant Watson
Albert D. Watson | |
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| Born | January 8, 1859 |
| Died | May 3, 1926 (aged 67) Toronto, Ontario |
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| Occupations | Physician, poet |
Albert Durrant Watson (January 8, 1859 – May 3, 1926) was a Canadian poet, and physician.
Life
[edit | edit source]He graduated from Victoria University, and Edinburgh University. He practiced medicine for more than forty years in the city of Toronto.[1][2]
Watson was born in a family of a reformer in politics and a Methodist in religion.[3] He held a series of seances from 1918 to 1920 by medium Louis Benjamin.[2] He joined the Bahá'í Faith in 1920, was active in the Toronto community, and publishing poems related to the religion in the 1920s in and beyond Bahá'í publications.[4]
The earliest known published assertion that we are stardust ("our bodies are star-stuff") is in Watson's 1913 book.[5][6]
Works
[edit | edit source]- "The Norse Discovery of America", Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada, 1923, v17, pp257.
Poetry
[edit | edit source]- "A Hymn for Canada", Canadian Medical Association Journal
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- Dream of God: A Poem (1922)
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Anthologies
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Psychic
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- Dr. Albert Durrant Watson, a prominent Canadian psychic investigator, claimed to be the first to receive a message from Dr. James H. Hyslop who died on June 17, 1920, in Upper Montclaire, New Jersey, "Hyslop's Society Scooped By Canada" The New York Times, Tuesday, June 22, 1920.[7]
References
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External links
[edit | edit source]- Error creating thumbnail: File missing Media related to Lua error in Module:Commons_link at line 62: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value). at Wikimedia Commons
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