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| name = Hubert Carr-Gomm
| honorific_suffix = [[Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)|MP]]
| image = File:1919_Hubert_Carr-Gomm.jpg
| caption = Hubert Carr-Gomm in 1919

| office = [[Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)|Member of Parliament]] for [[Rotherhithe (UK Parliament constituency)|Rotherhithe]]
| term_start = 1906
| term_end = 1918
| predecessor = [[John Macdona]]
| successor = [[John Lort-Williams]]
| majority =

| office1 = [[Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Prime Minister]]
| alongside1 =
| primeminister1 = [[Liberal government, 1905–1915|Henry Campbell-Bannerman]]
| predecessor1 = ''position established''
| successor1 = [[Geoffrey Howard (British politician)|Geoffrey Howard]]
| term_start1 = 1906
| term_end1 = 1908

| birth_name = Hubert William Culling Carr-Gomm
| birth_date = {{birth date|1877|06|20|df=yes}}
| birth_place = [[India]]
| death_date = {{death date and age|1939|01|21|1877|06|20|df=yes}}
| death_place = [[Tenerife]]
| education = [[Eton College]]
| party = [[Liberal Party (UK)|Liberal]]
| spouse = Kathleen Rome (m. 1906–1913, divorce) Eleanor Russell (m. 1916)
| children =
| relatives =
| alma_mater = [[Oriel College, Oxford]]
| otherparty =
| occupation = [[Publisher]]

| allegiance = United Kingdom
| branch = [[British Army]]
| serviceyears = 1898–1907 and 1914–1918
| rank = [[Captain (armed forces)|Captain]]
| servicenumber =
| unit = Volunteer Battalion of the [[Queen's Royal Regiment (West Surrey)]] 2/22nd Battalion, [[London Regiment (1908–1938)|The London Regiment]] (The Queen's)
| commands =
| battles = [[World War I|First World War]]
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'''Hubert William Culling Carr-Gomm ''' (20 June 1877 – 21 January 1939) was a British [[Liberal Party (UK)|Liberal]] politician and publisher.<ref>Who was Who, OUP 2007</ref>

==Early life and family==
Carr-Gomm's family came from [[Farnham Royal]] in [[Buckinghamshire]] but his father, Francis Culling Carr (1834–1919) was a member of the [[Indian Civil Service]] and District Judge of [[Tinnevelly]] so Hubert was born in India.<ref>''The Times'', 25 January 1906</ref> In the year that he was born, his mother, Emily Blanche Carr, was bequeathed by her aunt, Lady Elizabeth Ann Gomm (1807-1877), all the estates of her late husband, Field Marshal Sir [[William Maynard Gomm]] (1784-1875), on the proviso that the family assumed the name of Gomm in addition to Carr.<ref>The Gomm Estate - Its Constitution & Policy, 1947</ref> Upon the death of his mother in 1909 he inherited these estates.<ref>The Times, 23.1.19</ref> Hubert was educated at [[Eton College|Eton]] and [[Oriel College]], Oxford where he graduated with an [[Master of Arts (Oxbridge and Dublin)|MA]] in Modern History in 1900. Between 1898 and 1907 he served in the Volunteer Battalion of the [[Queen's Royal Regiment (West Surrey)]].<ref name=autogenerated1>The Times, 24.1.39</ref> In 1909 he was appointed a [[Justice of the Peace]] for Buckinghamshire<ref>''Visitation of England and Wales'' By Joseph Jackson Howard, Frederick Arthur Crisp, England College of arms, College of Arms (Great Britain), 1909</ref> 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 (UK Parliament constituency)|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.<ref>J Graham Jones, ''Champion of Liberalism: Eliot Crawshay-Williams'' in Journal of Liberal History, Issue 59 – Summer 2008</ref> Carr-Gomm was remarried in 1916 to Eleanor Russell the daughter of a [[barrister]] of the [[Inner Temple]].

==Politics==
Carr-Gomm was for a time Secretary of the London Liberal Federation and in the [[1906 United Kingdom general election|1906 general election]] he was elected Liberal MP for [[Rotherhithe (UK Parliament constituency)|Rotherhithe]]. He held the seat until 1918. From 1906 to 1908 he was Assistant Private Secretary to Liberal Prime Minister [[Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman]]. At the [[1918 United Kingdom general election|1918]] general election Carr-Gomm was again adopted by the Rotherhithe Liberals but was not one of those candidates favoured with the [[The Coalition Coupon|government coupon]]. This was instead bestowed on his [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative]] opponent [[John Rolleston Lort-Williams]] who was successfully returned. Carr-Gomm fought Rotherhithe once more in [[1922 United Kingdom general election|1922]] but again lost to Lort-Williams. In the [[1923 United Kingdom general election|1923 general election]] he switched to being Liberal candidate for [[Paddington South (UK Parliament constituency)|Paddington South]] but lost to the sitting [[Conservative Party (UK)|Unionist]] MP, [[Douglas King (politician)|Douglas King]].

Carr-Gomm continued to take an interest in political questions after leaving Parliament. In 1922 he wrote to ''The Times'', perhaps unsurprisingly condemning the then [[David Lloyd George]]-led government as being a coalition around one man or one set of men rather than around established parties and ideas.<ref>The Times, 20.1.22</ref> In 1936 he privately published a pamphlet calling for a system of [[proportional representation]] to be used in municipal elections in London where local government wards were ideal for its introduction.<ref>The Times, 10.1.36</ref>

==Military service and publishing==
In the [[World War I|Great War]], Carr-Gomm served in France and [[Salonika front|Salonika]] as a Captain in the [[22nd (County of London) Battalion (The Queen's)|2/22nd Battalion]], [[London Regiment (1908–1938)|The London Regiment]] (The Queen's). After landing in Salonika in 1917, Carr-Gomm was appointed to command the Second Entrenching Battalion.<ref>The Times, 27.11.18</ref> In 1921, the publisher [[John Lane (publisher)|John Lane]] who had been the co-founder of the imprint [[Bodley Head]] set up a successor company and Carr-Gomm became one of the directors.

==Death & papers==
In later life Carr-Gomm and his second wife lived at Tile House, [[Seaford, East Sussex]]. While travelling in the [[Canary Islands]] he contracted [[pneumonia]] and died on 21 January 1939 in [[Tenerife]], aged 61.<ref name=autogenerated1 /> A small collection of photo-copied papers consisting of recollections of Parliament, three letters from [[Winston Churchill]] and a note by Carr-Gomm on his father and the treatment of the Indians by the rubber companies in [[Putumayo District|Putumayo]], [[Peru]] are deposited in the archive of the London School of Economic and Political Science.<ref>[http://archives.lse.ac.uk/Record.aspx?src=CalmView.Catalog&id=COLL+MISC+0472 The collection of GOMM HUBERT WILLIAM CULLING CARR 1877-1939 MP] at LSE Archives</ref>

== See also ==
* [[List of Old Etonians born in the 19th century]]

==References==
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== External links ==
* {{Hansard-contribs | captain-hubert-carr-gomm | Hubert Carr-Gomm }}
* [http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portraitLarge/mw193443/Hubert-William-Culling-Carr-Gomm?LinkID=mp121593&role=sit&rNo=0 1919 Portrait of Carr-Gomm]

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