Richard Clement (cricketer)
{{short description|English cricketer and civil servant}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=September 2019}}
{{Infobox cricketer
| name =
| image =
| country = England
| fullname = Richard Clement
| birth_date = 10 June 1832
| birth_place = Saint Peter, Barbados
| death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|1873|10|29|1832|6|10}}
| death_place = Bicester, Oxfordshire, England
| heightft =
| heightinch =
| nickname =
| family = Reynold Clement (brother), Alleyne baronets (maternal relatives)
| batting = Unknown
| bowling = Unknown
| role =
| club1 = Oxford University
| year1 = 1853
| columns = 1
| column1 = First-class
| matches1 = 2
| runs1 = 7
| bat avg1 = 3.50
| 100s/50s1 = –/–
| top score1 = 4*
| deliveries1 = ?
| wickets1 = 2
| bowl avg1 = ?
| fivefor1 = –
| tenfor1 = –
| best bowling1 = 1/?
| catches/stumpings1 = 1/–
| date = 6 February
| year = 2020
| source = http://www.espncricinfo.com/england/content/player/11639.html Cricinfo
}}
Richard Clement (10 June 1832 – 29 October 1873) was an English first-class cricketer and treasury clerk.
Life
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Richard Clement was born on 10 June 1832 at Cabbage Tree Hall (which was later renamed Alleynedale Hall) on Saint Peter, Barbados,{{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). He was the nephew of Martha Clement who was the wife of Colonel Thomas Moody, Kt.. Richard had three siblings: Reynold Clement (1834 - 1905), Rosalie Philippa Hampden Clement (1838 - 1912), and Helena Rebecca Clement (1853 - 1935).
He was raised at Snarestone Lodge at Snarestone, Leicestershire, England, and was educated at Rugby School,{{cite book |title=Rugby School Register 1842–1874 |first=A. T. |last=Mitchell |date=1902 |volume=2 |publisher=A. J. Lawrence |page=43 |url=https://archive.org/details/rugbyschoolregis02rugbuoft/page/72 |language=en}} and at University College, Oxford,{{alox2|title=Clement, Richard (2)}} 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.{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/36/36562/First-Class_Matches.html |title=First-Class Matches played by Richard Clement |publisher=CricketArchive |accessdate=2020-02-06 |url-access=subscription}}
Richard was employed as a clerk, and then as Private Secretary to Colonel Taylor,{{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}} 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,{{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}} when he was aged 41.
References
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External links
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Category:19th-century Barbadian people
Category:People from North West Leicestershire District
Category:Cricketers from Leicestershire
Category:English people of Dutch descent
Category:People educated at Rugby School
Category:Alumni of University College, Oxford
Category:Oxford University cricketers
Category:English civil servants