origin of bath street name

This is the man after whom Bath Street, off Picadilly Street, East Port-of-Spain, was named.
He was Jonas Mohammed Bath, a Mandingo Muslim priest and member of the Koramantyn tribe in Africa who claimed to be the Sultan of Yulliallhad Alimant Animan.
Bath arrived in Trinidad in 1805 as an enslaved African, and was put to work on the construction of Fort George, Port-of-Spain.
He constructed a five-mile uphill road and, at the top, established battlements on what was later known as Fort George.
As an Imam regarded as a patriarch, Bath had influence over his fellow Muslims working on the construction of the fort, so he was appointed as an overseer or “colonial negro” with pay.
From the money he received while working on the fort, he acquired enough to pay for the release of 200 of the enslaved Africans on the island.
Bath, who was founder of the Mandingo Freedom Society, set up a sou-sou to purchase the freedom of his African brethren.
After the completion of the fort, he purchased several acres of land at Santa Cruz Valley, which he named Mizra Estate (after the Arabic word for a country estate).
In the 1830s, Bath wrote several petitions in English and Arabic on behalf of other Muslims who wished to be repatriated to their native lands. This goal, complicated under British law, was achieved to some degree. Several of his followers did make their way back home.
Bath died in September 1838, one month after the emancipation of the enslaved Africans in Trinidad.
Source:  Dominic Kalipersad