Lyford Cay

Lyford Cay

Lyford Cay is a private gated community in the Bahamas.

Lyford Cay is on the western tip of New Providence Island. The Lyford Cay Club is located within the gates of Lyford Cay - both were founded in the 1950's [ [http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,829771-2,00.html Carib Song - TIME ] ] by prominent Canadian businessman Edward Plunkett Taylor [ [http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,864583-2,00.html Treasure Islands - TIME ] ] [ [http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,895836-2,00.html Crowds in the Sun - TIME ] ] [ [http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,829873-2,00.html The Man with Many Eyes - TIME ] ] .

Notable residents

* Sean Connery, actor [ [http://film.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,,1318553,00.html Scotch myth | News | guardian.co.uk Film ] ] [ [http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/this_britain/article121662.ece Sean Connery hits back at critics by revealing his £3.7m tax bill - Home News, UK - The Independent ] ] [ [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;jsessionid=LCFR3HCVVBADDQFIQMGCFGGAVCBQUIV0?xml=/news/2003/03/07/nsean07.xml News - Telegraph ] ]
* Billionaire couple Dr. Sir Tony O'Reilly, media tycoon ["Media Top 100 2004" Guardian, 12 July 2004 http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2004/jul/12/mediatop100200458 ] [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/main.jhtml;jsessionid=LCFR3HCVVBADDQFIQMGCFGGAVCBQUIV0?xml=/money/2007/06/13/cnirish113.xml] and his wife Chryss Goulandris, Lady O'Reilly, a horse breeder and shipping heiress
* Joseph Lewis, British billionaire ["Souvenir King becomes Britain's Newest Millionaire" Independent, 13 April 1996 http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_19960413/ai_n14049707] ["Jol bruised by boardroom blunders" Guardian, 26 August 2007 http://football.guardian.co.uk/News_Story/0,,2156440,00.html] [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/main.jhtml;jsessionid=LCFR3HCVVBADDQFIQMGCFGGAVCBQUIV0?xml=/money/2007/09/10/bcnlewis110.xml]
* Peter Nygard, Canadian fashion executive [ [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9A02E2DD143DF936A15756C0A9669C8B63&scp=7&sq=%22lyford+cay%22 Storming the Last Civilized Sandbox - New York Times ] ]
* Viktor Kozeny, Czech fugitive financier [ [http://www.thenassauguardian.com/business/316079015913958.php The Nassau Guardian - Lyford Cay resident Kozeny indicted for fraud ] ]
* Mark Holowesko, CEO and President of Templeton Capital Advisors, Ltd. [ [http://www.holycross.edu/departments/publicaffairs/hcm/fall06/GAA/gaa4.html College of the Holy Cross | Holy Cross Magazine ] ]

Former residents

* Sir John Templeton, billionaire investor and philanthropist [ [http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/09/business/09templeton.html John Templeton, Investor, Dies at 95 - Obituary (Obit) - NYTimes.com ] ]
* Arthur Hailey, author [ [http://news.independent.co.uk/people/obituaries/article22184.ece Arthur Hailey - Obituaries, News - The Independent ] ]
* Nicholas Nuttall, baronet, heir to construction fortune [ [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;jsessionid=LCFR3HCVVBADDQFIQMGCFGGAVCBQUIV0?xml=/news/2007/08/08/db0801.xml Sir Nicholas Nuttall, Bt - Telegraph ] ]
* Henry Ford II, son of Edsel Ford, grandson of Henry Ford, former president of the Ford Motor Company
* Charles Lazarus - founder of Toys "R" Us

External links

* [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9A02E2DD143DF936A15756C0A9669C8B63&scp=7&sq=%22lyford+cay%22 "Storming the Last Civilized Sandbox", New York Times, May 25, 2000]

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