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 of Exeter College, Oxford, and Philippa Cobham Alleyne. His paternal grandfather was the landowner Richard Clement (1753 - 1829), whose English residence was 13 Bolton Street, Mayfair,^[2] 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..^[2] 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,^[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]

Richard was employed as a clerk 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, when he was aged 41.^[3]

References

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

External links

• Richard Clement at ESPNcricinfo