Arthur Allan Gomme (1882-1955) was a British librarian, historian of technology and folklorist.
There Gomme gained a first class diploma and the Siemens Memorial medal for Electrical Engineering.
Gomme served with the 2nd battalion, Royal Fusiliers (university and public schools division) during the First World War.
[3] Gomme contributed papers on the history of patents to Transactions of the Newcomen Society, as well as compiling for the journal, an 'Analytical bibliography of the history of engineering and applied science' (written with E. Wyndham Hume, his predecessor at the Patent Office library).
[5] In Good Things in England, White recommended that those who might have cookery books and manuscripts in need of a home allow Allan Gomme to acquire them for the Patent Office Library as it "has already the nucleus of a very fine collection of Old English Cookery Books.