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by Mike Brufal
Anthony Julius Patrick Lombard LLB (Hons) — Deputy Mayor of Gibraltar from 1st August 2009
Tony Lombard:
Manners Maketh the Man On 1st August, Anthony Julius Patrick Lombard LLB (Hons), becomes the Deputy Mayor and in 12 months will be the third non-politician to be Mayor of Gibraltar. Tony, as he is universally known, is determined he will represent all sections and strata of Gibraltarian society. Professionally Tony is a barrister single practitioner who holds firm views on many contentious subjects which, for many years, he has written about in the columns of the Gibraltar Chronicle. Never one for watering down his views he has been the catalyst for some lengthy exchanges of correspondence but, however fervent the views of those who do not agree with him, there has never been any personal
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hostility towards his opponents and he enjoys nothing more than, on one of his many walks down Main Street, having a laugh and a coffee with those who disagree with him. He is by nature extrovert and gregarious. Tony is also is a prolific writer of articles about Gibraltar’s history and a regular contributor to the Gibraltar Heritage Journal. His peers rank him as one of the Rock’s leading historians specialis-
ing in families and buildings. Tony is one of the founders of a group of Gibraltarian genealogists whose aim is to bring to the attention of Gibraltarians the wealth of their family histories to be found when they trace their families over the centuries. As he says: “We are more than ‘guns, sieges, bastions and military.’ We are a ‘people’ made up of ‘families and genes’ and very honourable
GIBRALTAR MAGAZINE • AUGUST 2009