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Samuel G. Benady
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Sam Benady's blog. His latest project is 'A Pictorial History of Gibraltar' with Sarah Devincenzi (illustrator), published in 2019.
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Sam Benady's blog.
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Samuel G. Benady MBE Mbe may refer to:
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'', 16 June 2007. MB, FRCP, DCH (born 11 September 1937 in Gibraltar
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) is a Gibraltarian
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historian
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, novelist
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and retired paediatrician of Sephardic
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descent. He has been a regular contributor to the Gibraltar Heritage Trust's Journal, and lecturer in the Gibraltar Museum
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, and author of several works related to the history of Gibraltar and also works of fiction. According to the '' Gibraltar Chronicle'', Benady is "Gibraltar’s well known and prolific author".
Dr Benady was born in Gibraltar, where his family has lived since the 18th century, and received his Medicine degree in London. He worked as a paediatrician in Bristol, Jerusalem and Gibraltar
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, where he ran the Child Health service. Benady worked for the Gibraltar Health Authority
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from 1980 until his retirement in 2002. In 2007 he was appointed a MBE "for services to health care and voluntary work".
Work
In 1990, Benady published two short stories in '' Sherlock Holmes in Gibraltar''. Thesepastiche
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s are set in the pre-Watson
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days. In the first one, ''The Abandoned Brigantine'', Sherlock Holmes
Sherlock Holmes () is a fictional detective created by British author Arthur Conan Doyle. Referring to himself as a " consulting detective" in the stories, Holmes is known for his proficiency with observation, deduction, forensic science and ...
reveals the solution to the mystery of the Mary Celeste, while in the second, ''The Gibraltar Letter'', the detective solves the case of the abduction of the Duke of Connaught while he was posted to Gibraltar. In 1992, after reading ''La compra de Gibraltar por los conversos andaluces'', ("The purchase of Gibraltar by Andalusian ''conversos''"), a monograph by Diego Lamelas about the story of the Cordova ''converso
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s'' who purchased Gibraltar in the 15th century, Benady translated and published it in English as ''The Sale of Gibraltar in 1474''. Then, he approached the history of St. Bernard's Hospital
St Bernard's Hospital is the only civilian general hospital in the British overseas territory of Gibraltar.
History
Juan Mateos
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, publishing ''Civil Hospital and Epidemics in Gibraltar''. ''Diary of an Epidemic'' and ''Passing through the Fever'' (both co-authored with Prof. L A Sawchuk) were published in 2003 and 2005. In 2005, Benady approached the biography genre, publishing a work on Sir George Don, Lieutenant Governor of Gibraltar from 1814 to 1831.Newsletter no 81Friends of Gibraltar Heritage Society, October 2007, pp. 6''The Keys of the City: An Episode in the History of Gibraltar'', also published in 2005, is a historical novel based in his former translation of Lamelas' work. A Spanish translation by Cayetano Ramirez has been published in 2015 by Nagrela Editores of Madrid, with the title ''Las llaves de Gibraltar''. Next came a detective mystery series of seven novels set in 18th and 19th century Gibraltar featuring the amateur detective Giovanni Bresciano, co-authored with
Mary Chiappe
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.Gib based Murder Mystery... introduces Bresciano, '' Gibraltar Chronicle'', 9 August 2010The Murder in Whirligig Lane
Sam Benady's blog. His latest project is 'A Pictorial History of Gibraltar' with Sarah Devincenzi (illustrator), published in 2019.
Publications
*''Sherlock Holmes in Gibraltar'' (Gibraltar Books
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*''The Sale of Gibraltar in 1474: To the New Christians of Cordova'', translation into English of ''La compra de Gibraltar por los conversos andaluces'' by Diego Lamelas (Gibraltar Books) 1992
*''Civil Hospital and Epidemics in Gibraltar'' (Gibraltar Books) 1994
*''Diary of an epidemic: Yellow Fever in Gibraltar, 1828'' (co-author) (Gibraltar Government Heritage Division), 2003
* ''Passing Through the Fever ''(co-author) (Diva Media, Toronto) 2005
*''General Sir George Don and the Dawn of Gibraltarian Identity'' (Gibraltar Books) 2005
*''The Keys of the City: An Episode in the History of Gibraltar'' (Gibraltar Books) 2005.
*''The Murder in Whirligig Lane'' (co-author) (Calpe Press) 2010.''The Murder in Whirligig Lane''/ref> *''Fall of a Sparrow.'' (HKB Press) (co-author) 2010.
Sam Benady's blog.
See also
*List of authors of new Sherlock Holmes stories
The following is an alphabetical list and selected bibliography of authors, other than Sherlock Holmes's creator Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, who have written Holmes stories:
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* Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Anna Waterhouse: ''Mycroft Holmes'' (2015), '' ...
References
External links
The Keys of the City: Sam Benady's writing blog
*http://brescianogibraltarmysteries.blogspot.com/
in Calpe Press web site. {{DEFAULTSORT:Benady, Sam British short story writers Gibraltarian historians Gibraltarian Sephardi Jews Jewish historians British paediatricians Living people Gibraltarian writers 1937 births