Richard Clement (cricketer)

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

Richard Clement

Personal information
Full name	Richard Clement
Born	10 June 1832 Saint Peter, Barbados
Died	29 October 1873(1873-10-29) (aged 41) Bicester, Oxfordshire, England
Batting	Unknown
Bowling	Unknown
Relations	Reynold Clement (brother), Alleyne baronets (maternal relatives)
Domestic team information
Years	Team
1853	Oxford 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

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]