Lyford Cay

Lyford Cay, also called Simms Cay, was a cay a few hundred metres off the north west coast of New Providence Island, 1.4 km long east-west, and up to 200 metres wide. On the map in the 1901 Edward Stanford Atlas it is noted: "The Isthmus at Lyford Cay has grown since 1830, when boats could pass at H.W. It is now 10 fṭ high & covered with bushes."[1]

Considered one of the world's wealthiest and most exclusive neighbourhoods, the Lyford Cay Club was built during the latter part of the 1950s[2] by prominent Canadian businessman Edward Plunkett Taylor, who bought the land in 1954 from Bahamian developer Sir Harold Christie.[3][4][5] In December 1962, U.S. President John F. Kennedy stayed at E. P. Taylor's home in Lyford Cay while he held talks with British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan.[6][7] There are about 450 homes.[8]

• The Bacardi family[9]
• Louis Bacon, U.S. hedge fund manager[10]
• The German-Dutch Brenninkmeijer family[9]
• R. Couri Hay, a Couristan carpet heir and the society editor of Palm Beach magazine and Hamptons magazine[9]
• Viktor Kožený, Czech fugitive financier[11]
• Joe Lewis, British businessman[12][13][14]

• Sean Connery, Scottish actor,[15][16][17] Connery died at Lyford Cay in 2020
• Henry Ford II, son of Edsel Ford, grandson of Henry Ford, former president of the Ford Motor Company[9]
• Prince Azamat Guirey, of the ruling family of Crimea[18]
• Stavros Niarchos, Greek shipping magnate[9]
• Peter Nygård, Finnish-Canadian former fashion executive[9]
• Sir Tony O'Reilly, Irish media tycoon[19]
• Sir John Templeton, American-born British investor and philanthropist[20]
• Arthur Hailey, British-Canadian novelist,[21] author of The Lyford legacy: a history of Lyford Cay from 1788[22][23]

• Media related to Lyford Cay at Wikimedia Commons

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