1922 - 2008 (86 years)
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| Name |
Richard Culling Carr-Gomm |
| Title |
Major |
| Birth |
2 Jan 1922 |
Mancetter, Warwickshire  |
| Gender |
Male |
| Death |
27 Oct 2008 |
| 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.
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| Person ID |
I2515 |
Gibbs Family Tree |
| Last Modified |
22 Nov 2018 |
| Father |
Mark Culling Carr-Gomm, b. 25 Apr 1883, Porchester Terra, Paddington, Middlesex d. 15 Jul 1963, 31 Haslewell Road, Putney, Surrey (Age 80 years) |
| Mother |
Amicia Dorothy Hemming, b. Jan 1880, Mancetter Lod, Mancetter, Warwickshire d. 20 Apr 1962, Ockley Lodge, Keymer, Sussex (Age 82 years) |
| Marriage |
17 Feb 1917 |
St Mary, Bathwick, Somerset |
| Family ID |
F1103 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Family |
Susan Gibbs, b. 4 Apr 1927, North Mymms, Herrtordshire d. 17 Oct 2007, Bath, Somerset (Age 80 years) |
| Marriage |
21 Oct 1957 |
| Children |
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| Family ID |
F1102 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Last Modified |
9 Jul 2017 |
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