Tito Benady

Mesod Benady MBE (born 17 July 1930) is a Gibraltarian historian of Sephardic Jewish descent.

Benady was involved in local politics during the seventies; he contested the 1976 election, as an independent,[1] and in the 1980 election,[2] as a candidate of the Party for the Autonomy of Gibraltar, led by Joseph Triay; he defended positions of rapprochement with Spain.

Benady has specialised in the local and military history of Gibraltar and has also written about: In 2000 he was appointed 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.

[3] Benady was elected "Consejero de Honor" of the Centro de Estudios Campogibraltareños (English: Centre for Campo de Gibraltar Studies)[4] and runs the publishing house Gibraltar Books Ltd., specialising in books about Gibraltar.