the Bath on 21 June 1859 and after further promotion to field marshal on 1 January 1868, he became Constable of the Tower in October 1872. He also served as honorary colonel of the 13th Regiment of Foot. He died at Brighton in Sussex on 15 March 1875 and was buried at Christ's Church in Rotherhithe. Under his widow's will £15,000 was left to Keble College, Oxford to endow scholarships in his memory. Family In 1817 Gomm married Sophia Penn, great-granddaughter of William Penn; following the death of his first wife in 1827 he married Elizabeth Kerr, eldest daughter of Major-General Lord Robert Kerr, who was the son of William Kerr, 5th Marquess of Lothian, in 1830. He had no children by either marriage. Lady Elizabeth died in 1877, leaving £5000 to the Sir William and Lady Gomm Charity to benefit elderly people in Rotherhithe. This endowed the Lady Elizabeth Memorial Mission Hall and Accident Hospital in Hawkstone Road next to Southwark Park. The former hospital building survives as Lady Gomm House. References Sources Further reading |- British field marshals British Commanders-in-Chief of India 1784 births 1875 deaths Burials in England Graduates of the Royal Military College, Sandhurst Knights Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath British Army personnel of the Napoleonic Wars Coldstream Guards officers Lord-Lieutenants of the Tower Hamlets Royal Norfolk Regiment officers Recipients of the Army Gold Cross Somerset Light Infantry officers Recipients of the Order of St. Anna, 2nd class Recipients of the Waterloo Medal Constables of the Tower of London British people in the British West Indies