Major Richard Culling Carr-Gomm

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Late Coldstream Guards, 3rd son of Mark Culling Carr-Gomm, late of Ockley Lodge, Keymer, Hassocks, Sussex. Educated at Stowe School and RMA Sandhurst.

Commissioned 1940, Coldstream Guards. Served in Second World War with Guards Tank Brigade in N.W. Europe and Middle East. Retired 1955. Croix-de-Guerre (bronze). Mentioned in despatches, twice wounded. Founded Abbeyfield Society 1956; Founded Carr-Gomm Society 1965 (Adviser); Founded Morpeth Society 1971 (Chairman). Author of Push on the Door autobiography, published by the Carr-Gomm Society Ltd. Bermondsey Dec. 1979.



Carr-Gomm was deeply affected during the Billy Graham crusade to London in 1954. In 1955 he left the Army and became a volunteer home-help. Perceiving the loneliness of the people whom he was helping to be a particular problem, he spent his Army gratuity on buying a house which he invited some of them to share with him. In his subsequent life he founded a number of charities which run care homes for the elderly, the disadvantaged, and those suffering from loneliness. For this work he was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 1985, and in 2004 received a Beacon Prize for lifetime achievement.

He was the subject of This Is Your Life in 1957 when he was surprised by Eamonn Andrews at the BBC Television Theatre.

The Carr-Gomm Society published his autobiography, Push on the Door in 1979. Loneliness: The Wider Scene was published in 1987.

A blue plaque in Gomm Road, Bermondsey, London Borough of Southwark, commemorates Richard Carr-Gomm and the Abbeyfield and Carr-Gomm societies.

Richard married Susan Gibbs on 21 Oct 1957. Susan (daughter of Ralph Crawley Boevey Gibbs and Dorothy Elizabeth Houldsworth) was born on 4 Apr 1927 in North Mymms, Herrtordshire; died on 17 Oct 2007 in Bath, Somerset. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Anna Mary Carr-Gomm
2. Elizabeth Dorothy Carr-Gomm
3. Harriet Jane Carr-Gomm
4. Adam Richard Carr-Gomm
5. David Culling Carr-Gomm

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• Baptism: 10 Jun 1883, St Barnabas, Rotherhithe, Surrey
• Residence: 26 Oct 1908, The Chase, Farnham Royal, Buckinghamshire

Mark married Amicia Dorothy Hemming on 17 Feb 1917 in St Mary, Bathwick, Somerset. Amicia (daughter of Dempster Heming and Fanny Sophia Morrieson) was born in Jan 1880 in Mancetter Lod, Mancetter, Warwickshire; died on 20 Apr 1962 in Ockley Lodge, Keymer, Sussex; was buried in 1962 in Hassocks, Sussex. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Baptism: 22 Apr 1880, Hove, Sussex

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• Occupation: Justice of Peace

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Francis Culling Carr-Gomm
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Francis Culling Carr-Gomm (25 January 1834 - 12 January 1919) was a colonial administrator in India, a barrister and a local politician in London.

Born as Francis Culling Carr, he was the second son of the Reverend Thomas William Carr, and was born in Teddington. He was educated in Cheam and at the Honourable East India Company's college in Haileybury, Hertfordshire.

He joined the Madras Civil Service and became District Judge of Tinnevelly, South India. He married Jeanie Elizabeth Chetwynd Francklyn at St George's Cathedral, Madras, in 1857 and they had four children before her death in 1869.

He returned to England, was called to the bar at the Inner Temple in 1869. In 1876 he married Emily Blanche Carr at St Gabriel's Church, Pimlico. She was the niece of Sir William Maynard Gomm, Constable of the Tower of London, who had died in 1875: from him she had inherited the Manor of Rotherhithe. As part of the process of becoming Lord of The Manor, Carr assumed the additional surname of Gomm, to become Carr-Gomm by royal licence on 9 March 1878. The couple had four children.

As well as his London properties, Carr-Gomm had estates in Buckinghamshire, and was a justice of the peace of that county and High Sheriff for 1894.

He was Honorary Colonel of the 3rd Volunteer Battalion, Queen's Royal Regiment (West Surrey), later the 22nd London Regiment, a Bermondsey-based infantry unit.

When the first London County Council was elected in 1889, Carr-Gomm became a Progressive Party councillor representing Southwark (Rotherhithe). He served a single three-year term on the county council. He was also chairman of the London Hospital.

Author of Handbook of the administrations of Great Britain during the nineteenth century, 1801-1900.

He died at his Buckinghamshire home aged 85.

Francis married Emily Blanche Carr on 17 Aug 1876 in St Gabriel Warwi, Westminster, Middlesex. Emily (daughter of Andrew Morton Carr and Emily Caroline Fortescue Kerr) was born on 4 Jul 1849 in Lowndes St., Westminster, London; died on 4 May 1909 in The Chase, Farnham Royal, Buckinghamshire; was buried on 8 May 1909 in Farnham Royal, Buckinghamshire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Dempster married Fanny Sophia Morrieson on 25 Mar 1879 in Hove, Sussex. Fanny was born on 24 Oct 1852 in Agra, Bengal, India; died on 14 Feb 1931 in Atherstone, Warwickshire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Baptism: 25 Dec 1852, Agra, Bengal, India

Thomas married Susan Woodward. Susan was born on 2 Sep 1794 in Mallow, Cork, Ireland; died on 8 Jul 1834 in Teddington, Middlesex; was buried on 12 Jul 1834 in Teddington, Middlesex. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Andrew married Emily Caroline Fortescue Kerr on 17 Jul 1841 in St Cuthberts, Edinburgh, Scotland. Emily (daughter of Maj-Gen. Lord Robert Kerr, Baron Kerr and Mary Gilbert) was born on 16 May 1807 in Midlothian, Scotland; died on 19 Apr 1893 in St George Square, Westminster, London; was buried on 24 Apr 1893 in Teddington, Middlesex. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]