Richard Clement (cricketer)

Richard Clement was born on 10th June 1832 at Cabbage Tree Hall (later Alleynedale Hall), Saint Peter, Barbados, the home of his maternal grandfather.

His father, Hampden Clement (14th April 1807-4th February 1880), was educated at Exeter College, Oxford, and came from a family of West Indian sugar planters that had settled in Barbados by the 1660s. Hampden's father Richard (1753-1829) owned two plantations in Barbados, and either managed or owned another two based at Demerara. [1] Hampden is the sister of Martha Clement who married Colonel Thomas Moody, Kt., some of whose children included Hampden Clement Blamire Moody, and Richard Clement Moody, who was the founder and the first Lieutenant-Governor of British Columbia.[2]

His mother, Philippa Cobham Clement, formerly Alleyne (1813-1889), was the daughter of Sir Reynold Abel Alleyne, second of the Alleyne baronets.

His younger brother, Reynold, also played first-class cricket.

Although Clement was born in Barbados, he grew up at Snarestone Lodge, Snarestone, Leicestershire, England, his parents having moved there in 1837.

Clement was educated at Rugby School,[3] and at University College, Oxford,[4] 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.[5]

After graduating from Oxford, Clement was employed as a clerk at the Treasury.

Clement died after falling off his horse during a hunt on 29 October 1873 near Bicester, aged 41. An inquest found his death to be accidental.[3]

He never married or had children.

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