Reynold Clement
{{short description|English cricketer (1834–1905)}}
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{{Infobox cricketer
| name = Major Reynold Clement
| image =
| country = England
| fullname = Reynold Alleyne Clement
| birth_date = {{birth date|1834|3|3|df=yes}}
| birth_place = Saint Peter, Barbados
| death_date = {{death date and age|1905|10|2|1834|3|3|df=yes}}
| batting =
| bowling =
| role =
| club1 = Cambridge University Cricket Club
| year1 = 1854
| club2 = Marylebone Cricket Club
| year2 = 1863
| date = 18 April 2019
| source = http://www.espncricinfo.com/england/content/player/11640.html CricInfo
}}
Major Reynold Alleyne Clement (3 March 1834 – 2 October 1905) was an English first-class cricketer{{Cite web|url=http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/player/11640.html |title=Reynold Clement |access-date=17 April 2017 |work=ESPN Cricinfo}} who was a member of Queen Victoria's bodyguard, and was Clerk of the Course of Ascot Racecourse from 1884 until his death in 1905.{{cite news| title = Obituary | newspaper = The Times |issue = 37828 | page = 6 | location = London | date = 3 October 1905}}
Early life
Reynold Alleyne Clement was born at Cabbage Tree Hall (which was later renamed Alleynedale Hall) at Saint Peter, Barbados, on 3 March 1834,{{cite web|url=https://www.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/person/view/2694|title=Hampden Clement: Profile and Legacies Summary, Legacies of British Slave Ownership, UCL|publisher=University College London|date=2019}} to Hampden Clement (14 April 1807 – 4 February 1880), who was an English landowner who was educated at Rugby School and Exeter College, Oxford, and Philippa Cobham Alleyne. His paternal grandfather was the landowner and Napoleonic Wars veteran Richard Clement (1753 - 1829), whose English residence was 13 Bolton Street, Mayfair,{{cite web|url=https://www.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/person/view/2146640761|title=Richard Clement: Profile and Legacies Summary, Legacies of British Slave Ownership, UCL|publisher=University College London|date=2019}} and his maternal grandfather was Sir Reynold Abel Alleyne, 2nd Baronet (1789 – 1870). Reynold was the nephew of Martha Clement who was the wife of Colonel Thomas Moody, Kt.. Reynold Clement had three siblings: Richard (1832 - 1873), Rosalie Philippa Hampden Clement (1838 - 1912), and Helena Rebecca Clement (1853 - 1935).
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Reynold Clement was raised in England at No. 23 and No. 20 Wilton Crescent, Belgravia, where his father also owned
No. 21, and at Snarestone Lodge, Snarestone, Leicestershire. He was educated at Rugby School and at Trinity College, Cambridge,{{cite web | url = https://archive.org/stream/p2alumnicantabri02univuoft#page/64/mode/2up | title = Alumni Cantabrigienses: Reynold Alleyne Clement| author = J. Venn and J. A. Venn | volume = Part 2| page = 64 | publisher = Cambridge, University Press| access-date = 19 May 2017}} at which he matriculated in 1853.
Career
=Cricket=
He played cricket as a middle-order batsman both for Rugby School and for Cambridge University: in 1854 he was selected for the University Match against Oxford University, although he failed to score in either innings.{{cite web | url = https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/1/1005.html | title = Scorecard: Oxford University v Cambridge University | date = 3 July 1854 | publisher = www.cricketarchive.com |url-access=subscription | access-date = 20 May 2017}} He played for Cambridge only in the 1854 season. By 1857, he was appearing in a minor match for a United Ireland eleven, and in 1863 his last first-class match was for the Marylebone Cricket Club.{{cite web | url = https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/36/36563/36563.html| title = Reynold Clement | publisher = www.cricketarchive.com |url-access=subscription | access-date = 20 May 2017}} Reynold's elder brother Richard played cricket for Oxford University in the 1853 University Match.
=Army=
After Cambridge, Clement joined the 68th (Durham) Regiment of Foot (Light Infantry) and served during the 1860s in the New Zealand Wars, in which he attained the rank of Major. In 1876, he was a member of Queen Victoria's personal bodyguard.
=Ascot Racecourse=
Marriage and family
Reynold was the only child of Hampden to marry and have children. He married Louisa Cecilia Blackwood, who was the daughter of Henry Martin Blackwood and of Harriet Louisa Bulkeley, and the granddaughter of Vice-Admiral Henry Blackwood, on 20 July 1867. They had four children before he died in 1905.
- Violet Mary Clement (1868 - 1943)
- Maud Clement (1871 - 1931) who married Oliver Philip Stanhope Ingham (who was a grandson of Charles Stanhope, 7th Earl of Harrington).
- Sydney Reynold Clement (1873 - 1915), who fought in South Africa with Winston Churchill, and inherited his father's office as Clerk of Course at Royal Ascot, before moving during 1911 to Australia where he was killed in action at Anzac Cove on 25 April 1915.{{cite web |title=CLEMENT, Sydney Reynold |url=https://emhs.org.au/person/clement/sydney_reynold |website=East Melbourne Historical Society |access-date=18 July 2020}}
- Ida Kathleen Clement (1875 - 1965) who married Horace West (who was the son of William Gladstone's Principal Private Secretary Sir Algernon West).
References
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External links
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Category:Cambridge University cricketers
Category:Marylebone Cricket Club cricketers
Category:People educated at Rugby School
Category:Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge