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*[[Richard Clement (1754 – 1829)]] (paternal grandfather);

*[[Alleyne baronets|Sir Reynold Abel Alleyne, 2nd Baronet]] (maternal grandfather);

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*[[Thomas Moody (British Army officer)|Colonel Thomas Moody, Kt.]] (paternal uncle);

*Sydney Reynold Clement (1873 – 1915) (nephew)

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English cricketer and civil servant

Richard Clement (10 June 1832 – 29 October 1873) was an English first-class cricketer and treasury clerk.

Richard Clement was educated at Rugby School and at University College, Oxford.

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 on Barbados.[4]

His father Hampden and uncle John inherited the estates Black Bess (196 slaves) and Clement Castle (220 slaves) (formerly Sober Castle, latterly Ellis Castle) in Saint Peter, Barbados,[5][6] 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 Hanover Square, after whom he was named.[5] His aunt Martha Clement was the wife of Colonel Thomas Moody, Kt.[5]

Richard had three siblings: Reynold Clement (1834 – 1905), Rosalie Philippa Hampden Clement (1838 – 1912), and Helena Rebecca Clement (1853 – 1935).[1]

He was raised at Snarestone Lodge at Snarestone, Leicestershire, England. His father Hampden also owned No. 23, No. 20,[1] and No. 21 Wilton Crescent, Belgravia.[2] He was educated at Rugby School,[7] and at University College, Oxford,[8] 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.[9]

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.[7]

  1. ^ a b c d “Hampden Clement: Profile and Legacies Summary, Legacies of British Slave Ownership, UCL”. University College London. 2019.
  2. ^ a b c d e “CLEMENT, Sydney Reynold”. East Melbourne Historical Society. Retrieved 18 July 2020.
  3. ^ a b “Ancestors of Hampden Clement, Holmes a Court”.
  4. ^ a b “John Allen Olton: Profile and Legacies Summary, Centre for the Study of the Legacies of British Slavery, UCL”. University College London. 2019.
  5. ^ a b c “Richard Clement: Profile and Legacies Summary, Legacies of British Slave Ownership, UCL”. University College London. 2019.
  6. ^ Will of Richard Clement of Barbados, PROB 11/1811/204, University College, London
  7. ^ a b Mitchell, A. T. (1902). Rugby School Register 1842–1874. Vol. 2. A. J. Lawrence. p. 43.
  8. ^ Foster, Joseph (1888–1891). “Clement, Richard (2)” . Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715–1886. Oxford: James Parker – via Wikisource.
  9. ^ “First-Class Matches played by Richard Clement”. CricketArchive. Retrieved 6 February 2020.

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