Lauderic Caton (31 August 1910 – 19 February 1999) was a Trinidadian guitarist who settled in Britain in 1940.
[2] According to Val Wilmer, "he exercised a significant influence on Pete Chilver[3] and Dave Goldberg, the two jazz guitarists more generally credited as British pioneers of the amplified instrument, while his students, official and unofficial, ranged from jazz exponents to the Nigerian highlife specialist Ambrose Campbell and Hank Marvin of the Shadows.
After spending time in Guadeloupe and Martinique, he moved to Europe in 1938, playing in Paris with guitarist Oscar Alemán and then in Brussels with Ram Ramirez, Jean Omer, Harry Pohl, and Jamaican Joe Smith.
[citation needed] Influenced by Lonnie Johnson and Charlie Christian, Caton first began using an amplifier in May 1940.
He worked with Cyril Blake, Johnny Claes, Bertie King, Harry Parry, Dick Katz, and Coleridge Goode.