"Lyford Cay Club Blazer Badge" (SOLD)

Sz: 2 3/8" x 2"

Lyford Cay is a private gated community located on the western tip of New Providence island in The Bahamas.

Considered one of the world's wealthiest and most exclusive neighbourhoods, the Lyford Cay Club was built during the latter part of the 1950s by prominent Canadian businessman Edward Plunkett Taylor, who bought the land in 1954 from Bahamian developer Sir Harold Christie. 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. There are about 450 homes.

Notable residents:

The Bacardi family

Louis Bacon, U.S. hedge fund manager

The German-Dutch Brenninkmeijer family

R. Couri Hay, a Couristan carpet heir and the society editor of Palm Beach magazine and Hamptons magazine

Viktor Kožený, Czech fugitive financier

Joe Lewis, British businessman

Former residents

Sean Connery, Scottish actor, 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

Prince Azamat Guirey, of the ruling family of Crimea

Stavros Niarchos, Greek shipping magnate

Peter Nygård, Finnish-Canadian former fashion executive

Tony O'Reilly, Irish former media CEO

Sir John Templeton, American-born British investor and philanthropist

Arthur Hailey, British-Canadian novelist, author of The Lyford legacy: a history of Lyford Cay from 178