Michael Craton

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**Michael John Craton** (20 August 1931-) Michael Craton, though born in London, England in the 1930's, son of Edgar Charles Craton and Alice Coombe (1866-1939), is of the Devonshire Craton who had a flirting history with seafaring, when his great-grandfather George Craton (1824-1895), before he was 30 went off with his new wife Elizabeth Hall (1835-1916) in the early 1860's to the mysterious remote island of Ascension, which stands midway between Africa and America. Craton were also born on the island including later Michael's great-aunt Emma (1862-1894). Back in Devon Craton families, who have been there at least since the 1760's, were also at the Royal Navy Hospital. At a time when the Devonshire 1st Battalion Regiment took a leading role in the relief of Ladysmith after a lengthy siege by the Boers (1899-1902) where being deployment to India, Michael's uncle Arthur Edward went with his wife Florence Maud to Dagshai, India (themselves having two children there). Maybe these small intrigues in his history sparked Michael Craton's enthusiasm for history and he soon got his Bachelor of Art. Leaving behind his two sisters Joyce and Margaret and David his younger bother he headed off to teach high school and by September 1956 he was offered a post as an Assistant Master at Nassau Government High School in the Bahamas. There, during his six-year sojourn, Michael completed a definitive "*History of the Bahamas*". At a time when few historians had taken an interest in the Caribbea

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