Tito Benady

Tito Mesod Benady (born 17 July 1930, Gibraltar), MBE, is a Gibraltarian historian of Sephardic Jewish descent. He currently lives in Grendon, Northamptonshire in the United Kingdom.

Benady was involved in local politics during the seventies; he contested the 1976 election, as an independent,[1] and in the 1980 election,[2] as a candidate of the Party for the Autonomy of Gibraltar, led by Joseph Triay; he defended positions of rapprochement with Spain. In neither election was he successful.

Benady has specialised in the local and military history of Gibraltar and has also written about:

In 2000 he was awarded an MBE after a proposal by the Government of Gibraltar for his services to local history. In 1993 he founded a history journal published by the Gibraltar Heritage Trust. He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, and also one of the board members of the Friends of Gibraltar Heritage Society.[3] Benady is also a member of the Centro de Estudios Campogibraltareños (English: Centre for Campo de Gibraltar Studies) [4] and runs the editorial Gibraltar Books Ltd., especialised in books about Gibraltar.

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