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 KBE (1865–1937), President of the Rating Surveyors Association, and
Fanny Jean, daughter of Rev. John Robert Turing of
Edwinstowe
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, Nottinghamshire. He was a nephew of
Arthur Stewart Eve
Arthur Stewart Eve (22 November 1862 – 24 March 1948) was an English physicist who worked in Canada.
Biography
Eve was born at Silsoe, Bedfordshire, on 22 November 1862, son of John Richard Eve, surveyor and land agent, and Frederica (n ...
and cousin of
Alan Turing
Alan Mathison Turing (; 23 June 1912 – 7 June 1954) was an English mathematician, computer scientist, logician, cryptanalyst, philosopher, and theoretical biologist. Turing was highly influential in the development of theoretical com ...
. He was educated at
Winchester College
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and
Christ Church, Oxford
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.
First World War
In the
First World War
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he was commissioned into the
Royal Welch Fusiliers
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and served at
Gallipoli
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, and in
Egypt
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and
Palestine
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, being awarded the
Military Cross
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The MC i ...
and reaching the rank of
Captain
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. He was
called to the Bar
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from the
Inner Temple
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, in 1919, became a
King's Counsel
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in 1935 and
Master of the Bench
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in 1943. He was chairman of the
Air Transport Licensing Authority
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from 1938 to 1939. He remained in the
Territorial Army after the war, reaching the rank of
Brigadier
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.
Second World War
In the
Second World War
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, Eve served with the armed forces from 1939 to 1941, before being appointed chairman of the
War Damage Commission
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(1941),
War Works Commission
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(1945),
Local Government Boundary Commission (1945) and
Central Land Board (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
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. He was a
Church Commission
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er from 1949, a member of the
Church Assembly
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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
Ski Club of Great Britain
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(1950), chairman of the
Cement Makers' Federation (1951), chairman of
St George's Hospital
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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
Fiji
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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
Baronet
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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,
Berwickshire
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.
Death
Lord Silsoe died in December 1976, aged 82, and was succeeded in his titles by his elder twin son
David
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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
*
Military Cross
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The MC i ...
*B. A. (Oxon), 1919
*M. A. (Oxon), 1927
*
(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
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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