Tito Benady

Who is Tito Benady?

Tito Mesod Benady, MBE, 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

⁕Minorca; 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, and also one of the board members of the Friends of Gibraltar Heritage Society. Benady also runs the editorial Gibraltar Books Ltd., especialised in books about Gibraltar.