William Trist Bailey

William Trist Bailey (October 9, 1846, in Torquay – February 21, 1910, in New York City)^[1] was a land developer who founded the community of Bayswater near Far Rockaway, Queens, New York City. He purchased the land from the descendants of Richard Cornell in 1878,^[2] and turned Bayswater into a fashionable residential neighborhood. Streets in Bayswater which bear his name are Trist Place and Bailey Court.