Malcolm Trustram Eve, 1st Baron Silsoe

Military Person

1894 – 1976

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Who was Malcolm Trustram Eve, 1st Baron Silsoe?

Arthur Malcolm Trustram Eve, 1st Baron Silsoe GBE, MC, TD, KC, known as Sir Malcolm Trustram Eve, 1st Baronet, from 1943 to 1963, was a British barrister and First Church Estates Commissioner.

Eve was the son of Sir Herbert Trustram Eve KBE, President of the Rating Surveyors Association, and Fanny Jean, daughter of Rev. John Robert Turing of Edwinstowe, Nottinghamshire. He was a nephew of Arthur Stewart Eve and cousin of Alan Turing. He was educated at Winchester College and Christ Church, Oxford. In World War I he was commissioned into the Royal Welch Fusiliers and served in Gallipoli, Egypt and Palestine, being awarded the Military Cross and reaching the rank of Captain. He was called to the Bar, Inner Temple, in 1919, became a King's Counsel 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 Colonel.

In World War II, he served with the armed forces from 1939 to 1941, before being appointed chairman of the War Damage Commission, War Works Commission, Local Government Boundary Commission and Central Land Board. He served all of these organisations until 1949. 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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Born
Apr 8, 1894
Education
  • Christ Church, Oxford
  • Winchester College
Died
Dec 3, 1976

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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