Lyford Cay is a privategated community located on the western tip ofNew Providence island inthe Bahamas. The formercay that lent its name to the community is named after CaptainWilliam Lyford Jr., a mariner of note in Colonial and Revolutionary times, and is built on a 448-acre (181 ha) grant he received for his services as aLoyalist in theAmerican Revolutionary War. Captain Lyford also received a 92-acre (37 ha) grant onCat Island for playing a key role inAndrew Deveaux’sraid of April 1783 that drove the Spanish fromNassau.

Lyford Cay, also calledSimms Cay, was acay 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 1901Edward Stanford Atlas it is noted: "TheIsthmus at Lyford Cay has grown since 1830, when boats could pass atH.W. It is now 10ft high & covered with bushes."

Considered one of the world's wealthiest and most exclusive neighbourhoods, the Lyford Cay Club was built during the latter part of the 1950s^[1] by prominentCanadian businessmanEdward Plunkett Taylor, who bought the land in 1954 from Bahamian developerSir Harold Christie.^[2][3][4] In December 1962, U.S. PresidentJohn F. Kennedy stayed at E. P. Taylor's home in Lyford Cay while he held talks with British Prime MinisterHarold Macmillan.^[5][6] There are about 450 homes.^[7]

• TheBacardi family^[8]
• Louis Bacon, U.S. hedge fund manager^[9]
• The German-DutchBrenninkmeijer family^[8]
• R. Couri Hay, a Couristan carpet heir and the society editor ofPalm Beach magazine andHamptons magazine^[8]
• Viktor Kožený, Czech fugitive financier^[10]
• Joe Lewis, British businessman^[11][12][13]

• SirSean Connery, Scottish actor,^[14][15][16] Connery died at Lyford Cay in 2020
• Henry Ford II, son ofEdsel Ford, grandson ofHenry Ford, former president of theFord Motor Company^[8]
• Prince Azamat Guirey, of theruling family ofCrimea^[17]
• Stavros Niarchos, Greek shipping magnate^[8]
• Peter Nygård, Finnish-Canadian former fashion executive^[8]
• Helen Singer Kaplan, Austrian-American-Bahamian sex therapist^[18]
• Tony O'Reilly, Irish former media CEO^[19]
• Sir John Templeton, American-born British investor and philanthropist^[20]
• Arthur Hailey, British-Canadian novelist,^[21] author ofThe Lyford legacy: a history of Lyford Cay from 1788^[22][23]

• Media related toLyford Cay at Wikimedia Commons

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