Hubert Carr-Gomm

Hubert William Culling Carr-Gomm (20 June 1877 – 21 January 1939) was a British Liberal politician and publisher.

Carr-Gomm’s family came from Farnham Royal in Buckinghamshire but his father was a member of the Indian Civil Service and District Judge of Tinnevelly so Hubert was born in India. Through marriage, his father, originally plain Mr Francis Carr, obtained the additional surname Gomm and the lordship of the manor of Rotherhithe (by the 20th century a predominantly nominal title, although one internet source claims the family held some land there) both of which he passed onto his son. Hubert was educated at Eton and Oriel College, Oxford where he graduated with an MA in Modern History in 1900. Between 1898 and 1907 he served in the Volunteer Battalion of the Queen's Royal Regiment (West Surrey). In 1909 he was appointed a Justice of the Peace for Buckinghamshire In 1906 he married Kathleen Rome. This marriage ended in divorce in 1913 because of his wife’s adultery with Eliot Crawshay-Williams, Liberal MP for Leicester, who was married with two children. It was a considerable scandal not least because, according to the poet and writer Lucy Masterman, the wife of another Liberal MP, Charles Masterman, Carr-Gomm and Crawshay-Williams had been friends at school, college and in politics. It ruined Crawshay-Williams’ political career. Carr-Gomm was remarried in 1916 to Eleanor Russell the daughter of a barrister of the Inner Temple.

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