Richard Clement
Barbados landowner
About Richard Clement
Lived 1754 – 1829 (aged 74–75).
Clement's English residence was No. 13 Bolton Street, Mayfair, next to his son-in-law Colonel Thomas Moody whose residence was No. 23.
Richard Clement Senior (1754–1829) was an influential Barbados landowner of sugar plantations. The Clement family (like the Alleyne family, Codrington family, Drax family, and Terrill family) were amongst the 17th century colonisers of Barbados.
Richard Clement Senior served in the Napoleonic Wars in the West Indies whilst he owned the estates Black Bess (197 slaves) and Clement Castle (231 slaves) (formerly Sober Castle, latterly Ellis Castle) in Saint Peter, Barbados.
His English residence was No. 13 Bolton Street, Mayfair,
Marriages His first wife, whom he married in Demerara, Thomas Dougan, who is commemorated in the south transept of St George's Cathedral, Georgetown, and the sister of the Tortola privateer John Dougan (1765 – 1826). She died in Providence, Guyana, in 1786. Elizabeth Hampden died, when aged 89 years, on 26 March 1813, on their estate in Barbados.
He was buried at St George's, Hanover Square, London. and Susannah Moody, he left monetary inheritance. of Trinity College, Oxford and Inner Temple, who was a royal commissioner in the West Indies, and No. 21, Wilton Crescent, Belgravia, who was educated at Rugby School and Exeter College, Oxford, and who married Philippa Cobham Alleyne (1813–1889) who was the daughter of Sir Reynold Abel Alleyne, 2nd Baronet, (1789–1870) of Cabbage Tree Hall (which was later renamed Alleynedale Hall) in Saint Peter, Barbados. Hampden Clement inherited from his father the estate Clement Castle (220 slaves) (formerly Sober Castle, latterly Ellis Castle) in Saint Peter, Barbados, which he sold to the black man Thomas Ellis for £26,000 (over £2 million in 21st century money) during 1837. His children included the Belgravia cricketers Richard Clement and Reynold Clement, by the latter of whom his grandchildren included the soldier Sydney Reynold Clement (1873–1915). John Clement (b. after 1798), who inherited the estate Black Bess (196 slaves) in Saint Peter, Barbados, from his father.
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Barbados landowner (1754 - 1829)
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