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).

[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.