Harold Ernest Watts was an organist, choirmaster, teacher and composer. Probably born around 1878, he received his early training at Worcester Cathedral and later held a succession of organists’ posts, including St John’s Church, Battersea (1899-1900), Deputy Organist of St Peter the Great, Worcester (1901-1903), Wheathampstead Parish Church, St Albans (from 1903) and St Peter’s, Paddington (from 1915). He was Principal of the London Correspondence School of Music during the 1940s, and continued to offer private music teaching from his home in Enfield until at least the mid-1950s. Watts published a small quantity of vocal music – chiefly anthems, unison songs and a few piano and organ pieces – between 1901 and 1949, and was the author of the book Choir training in church and school: a series of short papers on the teaching of singing in schools and choirs, published in London by The Vincent Music Company, probably in 1909. His date of death is not known.