Richard Clement

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

Life Family Richard Clement was educated at Rugby School and at University College, Oxford. Richard Clement was born on 10 June 1832 at Cabbage Tree Hall (which was later renamed Alleynedale Hall) in Saint Peter, Barbados, 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 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.

Richard was employed as a clerk, and then as Private Secretary to Colonel Taylor, 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, when he was aged 41.