Malcolm Eve

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Sir Arthur Malcolm Trustram Eve, 1st Baronet and 1st Baron Silsoe, GBE, MC, TD, QC, (born 8 April 1894; died 1976) was an English Barrister and First Church Estates Commissioner.

He was the son of Sir Herbert Trustram Eve KBE and was educated at Winchester College and Christ Church, Oxford.

In World War I, he served in Gallipoli, Egypt and Palestine, being awarded the Military Cross. He was called to the Bar (Inner Temple) in 1919, became 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.

In World War II, he 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 Central Land Board (1947). 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.

He was a Church Commisioner from 1949, a member of the Church Assembly 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 (1950), chairman of the Cement Makers' Federation (1951), chairman of St. George's Hospital (1952) and chairman of the Road Haulage Disposal Board (1953).

In 1960, he headed an enquiry into the sugar industry of Fiji, prompted by the dispute between the Federation of Cane Growers and the Colonial Sugar Refining Company (CSR).

He was created Baron Silsoe in 1963.

He 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.