Mesod Benady

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(born 17 July 1930) is a Gibraltarian

historian A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, methodical narrative and research of past events as relating to the human race; as well as the st ...

Sephardic Jew Sephardic (or Sephardi) Jews (, ; lad, Djudíos Sefardíes), also ''Sepharadim'' , Modern Hebrew: ''Sfaradim'', Tiberian: Səp̄āraddîm, also , ''Ye'hude Sepharad'', lit. "The Jews of Spain", es, Judíos sefardíes (or ), pt, Judeus sefa ...

ish descent. He currently lives in

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in the

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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 The Party for the Autonomy of Gibraltar (PAG) was a minority right-wing political party in Gibraltar founded on 7 September 1977. It was led by Joseph Triay and advocated a rapprochement with Spain. It contended the 1980 election, without succe ...

, 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, *

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; and * The Royal Navy. In 2000 he was appointed MBE after a proposal by the

Government of Gibraltar His Majesty's Government of Gibraltar is the democratically elected government of the British Overseas Territory of Gibraltar. The head of state is King Charles III who is represented by the Governor. Elections in Gibraltar are held every four ...

for his services to

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. In 1993 he founded a history journal published by the

Gibraltar Heritage Trust The Gibraltar Heritage Trust is a non-profit charity established by statute on 1 May 1989 to preserve and promote the cultural natural heritage of the British Overseas Territory of Gibraltar. Funding and responsibilities The Trust collaborates wit ...

. He is a Fellow of the

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, 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 ( en, Centre for

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Studies) 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 The Jewish Historical Society of England (JHSE) was founded in 1893 by several Anglo-Jewish scholars, including Lucien Wolf, who became the society's first president. Early presidents of the JHSE included Hermann Adler, Michael Adler, Joseph Jacob ...

26 (1979) *''The Gibraltar police, 1830–1980'' (Mediterranean Sun, 1980) *''The Jewish Community of Gibraltar'', in Western Sephardim (Gibraltar Books, 1989) *''Guide to the Gibraltar Museum'', (Ashford, Buchan & Enright, 1989) *''The Royal Navy at Gibraltar'', (Maritime Press, Liskeard, 1992) *''Los menorquines en Gibraltar'' in Revista de Menorca (1992) *''Grendon in Northamptonshire'', with Eileen Wilmin, (Gibraltar Books, 1994) *''The Streets of Gibraltar'', (Gibraltar Books, 1996) *''The Convent at Gibraltar'' in Journal of the Society of Army Historical Research 77 (Summer 1999) *''Spaniards in Gibraltar'' in Gibtel Gibraltar Heritage Journal No 7, (2000) *''The Settee Cut: Mediterranean Passes issued at Gibraltar'' in The Mariner's Mirror 87:3 (August 2001) *''Genoese in Gibraltar'' in Gibtel Gibraltar Heritage Journal No 8, (2001) *''The Royal Navy at Gibraltar Since 1900'', (Maritime Books, 2004) *''The Royal Gibraltar Police'', with Cecilia Baldachino (Gibraltar Books, 2005) *''Trade and Contraband in Gibraltar in Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries''’, Anglo-Saxons in the Mediterranean (Malta University Press 2007) *"Essays on the History of Gibraltar" (Gibraltar Books 2014)

References

External links

Short biography of Tito Benady
as speaker in the session ''Gibraltar Privateers 1793 to 1814'', in the 5th International Congress of Maritime History 23 June 2008 – 27 June 2008 {{DEFAULTSORT:Benady, Tito Living people 1930 births Gibraltarian historians Gibraltarian Sephardi Jews Jewish historians Members of the Order of the British Empire Gibraltarian emigrants to England People from North Northamptonshire British Sephardi Jews Fellows of the Royal Historical Society