[1] 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.

In the 1923 general election he switched to being Liberal candidate for Paddington South but lost to the sitting Unionist MP, Douglas King.

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.

[8] 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.

[5] 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, Peru are deposited in the archive of the London School of Economic and Political Science.