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Sophia Gomm

Memorial Sophia wife Sir WIlliam Maynard Gomm daughter Granville Isabella Penn died 1827 StGiles church Stoke Poges StokePoges
Memorial words Sophia wife Sir WIlliam Maynard Gomm daughter Granville Isabella Penn died 1827 StGiles church Stoke Poges StokePoges
Words at the base of the Memorial to Sophia Gomm.

Includes – “In the vault of her family near this spot is reposed all that could fade of Sophia, the beloved wife of Sir William Maynard Gomm, K.C.B.
Daughter of Granville and Isabella Penn.

Sophia Gomm was born in 1793, the eldest daughter of Granville and Isabella Penn and the sixth child of nine. Granville’s grandfather was William Penn (the founder of the state of Pennsylvania, USA) and his father, Thomas had purchased Stoke Park, Stoke Poges. She grew up in Stoke Poges and London. Sophia’s father was distinguished in the literary world as an author covering subjects such as the Iliad and an ancestor, Admiral Sir William Penn.

She married Lt.Colonel Sir William Gomm in 1818. By then Gomm had already become a very eligible single man in the army including being at many Napoleonic battles (5th Division at Waterloo, 1815). He had been abroad on so many military campaigns. Between 1817 to 1839 he was on home service. They had no children. They lived in Hanover Square, London and would visit her relatives homes, including her uncle, John Penn’s Stoke Park Mansion house and 10 New St., Springs Gardens, St James, London. After John’s death when the Penns had some financial dificulties, Sir William bought the Spring Gardens home. In 1868 he became a Field Marshal. Sophia died age 33 in 1827.

Garden John Penn St James's Park charity fair Charing Cross Hospital Coloured lithograph G Scharf 1830 later home Field Marshal Sir William Gomm
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Garden of John Penn, St James’s Park: A charity fair for Charing Cross Hospital. Coloured lithograph by George Scharf, 1830 is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license. © Wellcome Collection

Field Marshal Sir William Maynard Gomm by William Slater circ 1834-1840
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Field Marshal Sir William Maynard Gomm by William Slater circ 1834-1840 is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International license. © National Portrait Gallery, London

Old George grave to Field Marhsal William Gomm horse Waterloo garden Memorial Gardens cottage StokePoges Stoke Poges
Grave stone to Gomms horse called ‘Old George’ in a garden of Memorial Gardens cottage Stoke Poges.

Old George who had been at the Battle of Waterloo
and in retirement in the parkland of Stoke Park.
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