Samuel Ralph Lintott Newton

George married Anna Mary Carr-Gomm [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

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]

Notes:

Baptised 14 May 1927 at North Mymms, Herts.

In Canada during the war. After her return to England did various jobs including hospital library service, housekeeping in the East End for lonely old people.

Other Events and Attributes:

• 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]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 22 Apr 1880, Hove, Sussex

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 4 Aug 1891, Barrow Gurney, Somerset
• Residence: 1901, Down Ampney, Gloucestershire; Relation to Head of House: Son
• 1911 Census: 2 Apr 1911, Down Ampney, Gloucestershire; Age: 19; Marital Status: Single; Relation to Head of House: Son

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6th son of Henry Martin Gibbs. Baptised 4 August 1891 at Barrow Gurney. Educated at Eton College, 1904-9; matric. Oxford (Magdalen College) October 1910.

Entered Antony Gibbs & Sons, 1912; joined Gibbs & Co., Chile, 1914, but returned on outbreak of the Great War. Re-entered A. Gibbs & Sons, 1919, and joined Gibbs, Bright & Co., Australia in the same year; resigned in 1923. Partner from 1928 in Lamb & Gold, stockjobbers in the City of London. 2nd Lieut. North Somerset Yeomanry (Territ.), Oct. 1912; Lieut., 1915; Captain, 1916; Retired, 1919. In the Great War served in France with N. Som. Yeo., Sept. 1914 to May 1915; and August 1916 to April 1918; and with the 7th Dragoon Guards, April 1918, till end of the War. Despatches, 14 January 1915; 1914 Star, British War Medal, Allies' (Victory) Medal. He was a Trustee of St. Michael's Home, in Cheddar, and Treasurer of St. Peter's Home, Kilburn. In the Second World War he was a Lt. Col. in the Military Police in India.
Residences: Bush Hall, Hatfield, Herts., 1924-28; Benhay, Little Gaddesden, Herts., from 1928; later at Church Farm, South Marston and The Manor House at Woodmancote.

Portraits: by G. Anderson (1900); by Ogilvie (1915); by F. Crawley-Boevey at Sheldon Manor last in possession Martin A. Gibbs; and a min. by Miss Hall; all four were in possn. of his brother William in 1932.

Ralph married Dorothy Elizabeth Houldsworth on 5 Aug 1915 in St Saviour, Chelsea, London. Dorothy (daughter of William Thomas Houldsworth, Rev. and Eulalie Venables) was born on 13 Feb 1894 in 1 Mansfield Street, St Marylebone, London; died on 9 Mar 1951 in Cirencester, Gloucestershire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 14 Mar 1894, St Marylebone, London
• 1901 Census: Apr 1901, St Marylebone, London; Age: 7; Relation to Head of House: Daughter
• 1911 Census: 2 Apr 1911, St Marylebone, London; Age: 17; Marital Status: Single; Relation to Head of House: Daughter

Notes:

3rd and youngest daughter of Rev. William Houldsworth and sister of Lillie Caroline Gibbs. Baptised at St. Andrew's, Wells Street, in the Borough of St. Marylebone.

In the Great War she served in the kitchen of a Hospital. She was an officer in several Little Gaddesden institutions.

Portrait by Spencer Wilkinson, 1925, last in possession of Mary Elizabeth Gibbs.