[2] It was created on 18 January 1963 for the barrister Sir Malcolm Trustram Eve, 1st Baronet.

He had already been created a Baronet, of Silsoe in the County of Bedford, on 18 January 1943.

As of 2017[update] the titles are held by his son Simon, the third Baron, who succeeded in 2005.

The family seat is Neals Farm, near Reading, Berkshire.

The heir presumptive is his first cousin, Richard Malcolm Jannion Trustram Eve (born 1963), son of the Hon.