Richard Clement (cricketer)

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

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]

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