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 Herbert Trustram Eve

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(1865–1937), president of the Rating Surveyors Association, and Fanny Jean, daughter of Rev. John Robert Turing of

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, Nottinghamshire. He was a nephew of Arthur Stewart Eve and cousin of

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. He was educated at

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and

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First World War

In the

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he was commissioned into the

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and served at

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, and in

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and

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, being awarded the

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and reaching the rank of

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. He was

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from the

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, in 1919, became a

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in 1935 and Master of the Bench in 1943. He was chairman of the Air Transport Licensing Authority from 1938 to 1939. He remained in the Territorial Army after the war, reaching the rank of

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Second World War

In the

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, Eve served with the armed forces from 1939 to 1941, before being appointed chairman of the War Damage Commission (1941), War Works Commission (1945), Local Government Boundary Commission (1945) and

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(1947). He served all of these organisations until 1949.

Post-war career

From 1950 to 1953 he was chairman of the Burnham Committee and in 1952-53 he was president of the European Cement Association. He was a

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er from 1949, a member of the

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from 1952, and was Third Church Estates Commissioner from 1952 to 1954. In 1954, he was appointed First Church Estates Commissioner. His other appointments included chairman of St. George's Medical School (1948), president of the

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(1950), chairman of the Cement Makers' Federation (1951), chairman of

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(1952) and chairman of the Road Haulage Disposal Board (1953). In 1960, he headed an enquiry into the sugar industry of

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, prompted by the dispute between the Federation of Cane Growers and the Colonial Sugar Refining Company (CSR).

Baronet Silsoe

Eve was created a

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, of Silsoe in the County of Bedford, in 1943, and in 1963 he was raised to the peerage as Baron Silsoe, of Silsoe in the County of Bedford.

Personal life

Eve married Marguerite, daughter of Sir Augustus Meredith Nanton, in 1927 and they had twin sons, David and Peter, in May 1930. His first wife died in 1945 and he subsequently married Margaret Elizabeth, daughter of Henry Wallace Robertson of Ayton,

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Death

Lord Silsoe died in December 1976, aged 82, and was succeeded in his titles by his elder twin son

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, who also became a prominent lawyer. He, in turn, was succeeded on 31 December 2005 by his son Simon Rupert Trustram Eve (b. 17 April 1966).

Honours

*B. A. (Oxon), 1919 *M. A. (Oxon), 1927 *

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(Civil), 1950

References

*Hankinson, C. F. J. (ed.), ''Debrett's Baronetage, Knightage and Companionage, 1954'', Odhams Press, 1954 *Silsoe, Lord, ''Sixty Years a Welsh Territorial'', Dyfed, Wales: Gomer Press, 1976 {{DEFAULTSORT:Silsoe, Malcolm Trustram Eve, 1st Baron 1894 births 1976 deaths People educated at Winchester College Alumni of Christ Church, Oxford Knights Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire Members of the Inner Temple Royal Welch Fusiliers officers Recipients of the Military Cross British Army personnel of World War I British King's Counsel British Army personnel of World War II English Anglicans Hereditary barons created by Elizabeth II Church Estates Commissioners