Sir Herbert Trustram Eve

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(1865–1936) was a noted

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expert in

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Biography

Born on 4 June 1865, Herbert Trustram Eve was educated at

Bedford School Bedford School is a 7–18 Single-sex education, boys Public school (United Kingdom), public school in the county town of Bedford in England. Founded in 1552, it is the oldest of four independent schools in Bedford run by the Harpur Trust. Bed ...

. In 1893, he married

Fanny Jean Turing Fanny Jean Turing (1862 – 1 February 1934), Lady Trustram Eve, was a British politician. Life Turing was born on 6 July 1862 in Cambridge. She married Herbert Trustram Eve in 1893, and the couple settled in London. There, she became ...

, who later became a Conservative Party politician.Cheryl Law, ''Women: A Modern Political Dictionary'', p. 61 In 1904, Eve was appointed Agricultural Correspondent to the

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. During the

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, he was appointed Chairman of the Forage Committee at the

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, overseeing the requisitioning of foodstuffs for the

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. In 1920, he was elected as President of the

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(an office held by both his father and his grandfather). He was an expert in the valuation of

, was President of the Rating Surveyors Association, and was retained as an

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in several high-profile compensation cases. He would often appear in court opposite his son, the

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Malcolm Trustram Eve, 1st Baron Silsoe Arthur Malcolm Trustram Eve, 1st Baron Silsoe (8 April 1894 – 3 December 1976), known as Sir Malcolm Trustram Eve, 1st Baronet, from 1943 to 1963, was a British barrister and First Church Estates Commissioner. Biography Eve was the son of Sir ...

. He was a frequent contributor to ''

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'', and his articles included an article in April 1922 entitled "Reduce the Rates," and another in April 1926 on "the Rating Act." He was keenly interested in the preservation of

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's "

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." Sir Herbert Trustram Eve was invested as a Knight Commander of the

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in 1918. He died in

on 11 November 1936, aged 71.

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