Richard Clement (cricketer)

Richard Clement
Personal information
Full name
Richard Clement
Born10 June 1832
Saint Peter, Barbados
Died29 October 1873(1873-10-29) (aged 41)
Bicester, Oxfordshire, England
BattingUnknown
BowlingUnknown
RelationsReynold Clement (brother), Alleyne baronets (maternal relatives)
Domestic team information
YearsTeam
1853Oxford University
Career statistics
Competition First-class
Matches 2
Runs scored 7
Batting average 3.50
100s/50s –/–
Top score 4*
Balls bowled ?
Wickets 2
Bowling average ?
5 wickets in innings –
10 wickets in match –
Best bowling 1/?
Catches/stumpings 1/–
Source: Cricinfo, 6 February 2020

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

Life

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) on 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. His paternal grandfather was the landowner and Napoleonic Wars veteran[2] Richard Clement (1753 - 1829), whose English residence was 13 Bolton Street, Mayfair,[3] and his maternal grandfather was Sir Reynold Abel Alleyne, 2nd Baronet (1789 – 1870). He was the nephew of Martha Clement who was the wife of Colonel Thomas Moody, Kt..[3] 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, and was educated at Rugby School,[4] and at University College, Oxford,[5] 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.[6]

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.[4]

References

  1. ^ a b "Hampden Clement: Profile and Legacies Summary, Legacies of British Slave Ownership, UCL". University College London. 2019.
  2. ^ a b c d "CLEMENT, Sydney Reynold". East Melbourne Historical Society. Retrieved 18 July 2020.
  3. ^ a b "Richard Clement: Profile and Legacies Summary, Legacies of British Slave Ownership, UCL". University College London. 2019.
  4. ^ a b Mitchell, A. T. (1902). Rugby School Register 1842–1874. Vol. 2. A. J. Lawrence. p. 43.
  5. ^ Foster, Joseph (1888–1892). "Clement, Richard (2)" . Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715–1886. Oxford: Parker and Co – via Wikisource.
  6. ^ "First-Class Matches played by Richard Clement". CricketArchive. Retrieved 6 February 2020.