Andor was the son of Arnold Wycombe Gomme, a British classical scholar and Professor of Ancient History at the University of Glasgow and Phyllis Kate Harvey.
His first book, Attitudes To Criticism, has been described as "a critical celebration of the very similar sensibilities and minds of Leavis and the American Yvor Winters",[1] while his last book, Design and plan in the country house (with co-author Alison Maguire), has been praised by Professor Timothy Mowl as a "remarkable scholarly resource" despite its "ambitious range".
The author of his obituary, Emeritus Professor of Cultural Studies Fred Inglis, described Gomme as "one of the best British architectural historians since John Ruskin".
[1] The recitatives and turba choruses are drawn from Reinhard Keiser's (1674–1739) St Mark Passion, which Bach himself had adapted for use in Weimar in 1713 (and which influenced Bach's own St Matthew Passion.)
Gomme was the first to utilise Keiser's recitatives, and he enabled fuller reconstructions by other scholars.