Tito Benady, Date of Birth

    

Tito Benady

Gibraltarian historian

Date of Birth: 17-Jul-1930

Profession: historian

Zodiac Sign: Cancer


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About Tito Benady

  • Mesod Benady MBE (born 17 July 1930) 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: Sephardic Jews in general; The Jewish communities in Gibraltar, Malta Menorca; and The Royal Navy.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 (English: Centre for Campo de Gibraltar Studies) and runs the publishing house Gibraltar Books Ltd., specialising in books about Gibraltar.

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