Education
Born on 4 June 1865, Herbert Trustram Eve was educated at Bedford School.
Born on 4 June 1865, Herbert Trustram Eve was educated at Bedford School.
In 1904 he was appointed as Agricultural Correspondent to the Board of Agriculture. During the First World War he was appointed as Chairman of the Forage Committee at the War Office, which oversaw the requisitioning of foodstuffs for the British Army. He was an expert in the valuation of real property, was President of the Rating Surveyors Association, and was retained as an expert witness in a number of high-profile compensation cases.
He was a frequent contributor to The Times, and his articles included an article in April 1922 entitled "Reduce the Rates", and another in April 1926 on "the Rating Acting".
He was keenly interested in the preservation of London"s "Green Belt". Sir Herbert Trustram Eve was invested as a Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1918.
He died in London on 11 November 1936, aged 71.