Early Life
Watts was born on 25 June 1945 in Leicester and grew up in the Midlands where his father worked in the textile industry. He attended Wyggeston Boys' and Dixie grammar schools in Leicestershire and the University of Leeds where he studied physics, graduating as BSc in 1968. After university he taught briefly in Sierra Leone before returning to Leeds to study for a master's degree in geophysics (MA).
In 1969 Watts joined Shell for whom he worked until 2004. In October 2012, he was appointed priest-in-charge of Waltham St Lawrence parish church.
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