Tito Mesod Benady, Administration Member of the Order of the British Empire, is a Gibraltarian historian of Sephardic Jewish descent.
Career
He currently lives in Grendon, Northamptonshire in the United Kingdom. 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
Minorca.
And
The Royal Navy.
In 2000 he was awarded an Administration Member of the Order of the British Empire 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.
Politics
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.
Membership
He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, and also one of the board members of the Friends of Gibraltar Heritage Society. Benady is also a member of the Centro de Estudios Campogibraltareños (English: Centre for Campo de Gibraltar Studies) and runs the editorial Gibraltar Books Limited., especialised in books about Gibraltar.
