Richard Clement (cricketer)
English cricketer and civil servant
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Richard Clement (10 June 1832 – 29 October 1873) was an English first-class cricketer and treasury clerk.
Cabbage Tree Hall/Alleynedale Hall, Saint Peter, Barbados
Bicester, Oxfordshire, England
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| Full name | Richard Clement | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 10 June 1832 Cabbage Tree Hall/Alleynedale Hall, Saint Peter, Barbados | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Died | 29 October 1873 (aged 41) Bicester, Oxfordshire, England | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Batting | Unknown | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bowling | Unknown | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 1853 | Oxford University | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Life
Family
Richard Clement was born on 10 June 1832 at Cabbage Tree Hall (which was later renamed Alleynedale Hall) in Saint Peter, Barbados,[1] to Hampden Clement (14 April 1807 – 4 February 1880), who was an English landowner who was educated at Rugby School[2] and Exeter College, Oxford, and Philippa Cobham Alleyne (1813 - 1889) who was the daughter of Sir Reynold Abel Alleyne, 2nd Baronet (1789 – 1870)[1] and Rebecca Olton[3] (1794 - 1860).[4] His parents were married on 6 July 1831 in St. Peter, Barbados.[3] His maternal grandmother's father was John Allen Olton who owned the Harrow estate in Saint Philip, Barbados.[4]
His father Hampden and uncle John inherited the estates Black Bess (197 slaves)[5] and Clement Castle (231 slaves)[6] (formerly Sober Castle, latterly Ellis Castle) in Saint Peter, Barbados,[7][8] from his paternal grandfather the landowner and Napoleonic Wars veteran[2] Richard Clement (1754 – 1829), whose English residence was 13 Bolton Street, Mayfair, and who was buried at St George's, Hanover Square, after whom he was named.[7] His aunt Martha Clement was the wife of Colonel Thomas Moody, Kt.[7]
Richard had three siblings: Reynold Clement (1834 - 1905), Rosalie Philippa Hampden Clement (1838 - 1912), and Helena Rebecca Clement (1853 - 1935).[1]
Life
He was raised in England at No. 23 and No. 20 Wilton Crescent, Belgravia,[1] where his father also owned No. 21,[2] and at Snarestone Lodge at Snarestone, Leicestershire, England. He was educated at Rugby School,[9] and at University College, Oxford,[10] whilst at which he in 1853 appeared twice in first-class cricket for Oxford University, once against the Marylebone Cricket Club and once against Cambridge University.[11]
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Richard was employed as a clerk, and then as Private Secretary to Colonel Taylor,[2] at the Treasury, until he died, without either marriage or issue, after falling off his horse during a hunt near Bicester on 29 October 1873, and after a shooting accident during November 1873,[2] when he was aged 41.[9]