Country: | England |
Fullname: | Richard Clement |
Birth Date: | 10 June 1832 |
Birth Place: | Saint Peter, Barbados |
Death Place: | Bicester, Oxfordshire, England |
Family: | Reynold Clement (brother), Alleyne baronets (maternal relatives) |
Batting: | Unknown |
Bowling: | Unknown |
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.
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, 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.[4]
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]