Tito Benady
Mesod Benady 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, and in the 1980 election, 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, was one of the board members of the Friends of Gibraltar Heritage Society 1985-2013. Benady was elected "Consejero de Honor" of the Centro de Estudios Campogibraltareños and runs the publishing house Gibraltar Books Ltd., specialising in books about Gibraltar.Works
- The Settlement of Jews in Gibraltar, 1704 -1783, Transactions, Jewish Historical Society of England 26
- The Gibraltar police, 1830-1980
- The Jewish Community of Gibraltar, in Western Sephardim
- Guide to the Gibraltar Museum,
- The Royal Navy at Gibraltar,
- Los menorquines en Gibraltar in Revista de Menorca
- Grendon in Northamptonshire, with Eileen Wilmin,
- The Streets of Gibraltar,
- The Convent at Gibraltar in Journal of the Society of Army Historical Research 77
- Spaniards in Gibraltar in Gibtel Gibraltar Heritage Journal No 7,
- The Settee Cut: Mediterranean Passes issued at Gibraltar in The Mariner’s Mirror 87:3
- Genoese in Gibraltar in Gibtel Gibraltar Heritage Journal No 8,
- The Royal Navy at Gibraltar Since 1900,
- The Royal Gibraltar Police, with Cecilia Baldachino
- Trade and Contraband in Gibraltar in Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries’, Anglo-Saxons in the Mediterranean
- "Essays on the History of Gibraltar"
