Reynold Clement

Major Reynold Alleyne Clement (3 March 1834 – 2 October 1905) was an English first-class cricketer who was Clerk of the Course of Ascot Racecourse from 1884 until his death in 1905, when the office was inherited by his only son Sydney Reynold Clement (1873 - 1915).

Early life Family Reynold Alleyne Clement was born at Cabbage Tree Hall (which was later renamed Alleynedale Hall) in Saint Peter, Barbados, on 3 March 1834, to Hampden Clement (14 April 1807 – 4 February 1880), who was an English landowner who was educated at Rugby School (1794 - 1860).

His father Hampden and uncle John inherited the estates Black Bess (197 slaves) and Clement Castle (231 slaves) (formerly Sober Castle, latterly Ellis Castle) in Saint Peter, Barbados, from his paternal grandfather the landowner and Napoleonic Wars veteran Reynold's aunt Martha Clement was the wife of Colonel Thomas Moody, Kt. at which he matriculated in 1853. He played for Cambridge only in the 1854 season. By 1857, he was appearing in a minor match for a United Ireland eleven, and in 1863 his last first-class match was for the Marylebone Cricket Club. Reynold's elder brother Richard played cricket for Oxford University in the 1853 University Match. Ida Kathleen Clement (1875 - 1965) who married Horace West (who was the son of William Gladstone's Principal Private Secretary Sir Algernon West).