Reynold Clement

Major Reynold Alleyne Clement (3 March 1834 – 2 October 1905) was an English first-class cricketer^[2] who was a member of Queen Victoria's bodyguard, and was Clerk of the Course of Ascot Racecourse from 1884 until his death in 1905.^[3]

Reynold Alleyne Clement was born at Cabbage Tree Hall (which was later renamed Alleynedale Hall) at Saint Peter, Barbados, on 3 March 1834,^[1] to Hampden Clement (14 April 1807 – 4 February 1880), who was an English landowner of Exeter College, Oxford, and Philippa Cobham Alleyne.^[1] His paternal grandfather was the landowner Richard Clement (1753 - 1829), whose English residence was 13 Bolton Street, Mayfair,^[4] and his maternal grandfather Sir Reynold Abel Alleyne, 2nd Baronet (1789 – 1870). Reynold was the nephew of Martha Clement who was the wife of Colonel Thomas Moody, Kt..^[4] Reynold Clement had three siblings: Richard (1832 - 1873), Rosalie Philippa Hampden Clement (1838 - 1912), and Helena Rebecca Clement (1853 - 1935).^[1]

Reynold Clement was raised in England at No. 23 and No. 20 Wilton Crescent, Belgravia, and at Snarestone Lodge, Snarestone, Leicestershire,^[1] and he was educated at Rugby School and at Trinity College, Cambridge,^[5] at which he matriculated in 1853.^[1]

He played cricket as a middle-order batsman both for Rugby School and for Cambridge University: in 1854 he was selected for the University Match against Oxford University, although he failed to score in either innings.^[6] 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.^[7] Reynold's elder brother Richard played cricket for Oxford University in the 1853 University Match.^[7]

After Cambridge, Clement joined the 68th (Durham) Regiment of Foot (Light Infantry) and served during the 1860s in the New Zealand Wars, in which he attained the rank of Major.^[5] In 1876, he was a member of Queen Victoria's personal bodyguard.^[5]

He was appointed secretary to the Board of Trustees of Ascot Racecourse in 1881, and Clerk of the Course at the same in 1885,^[1][3] as which he made 'vast improvements' to the course and to the stands.^[1]

Reynold was the only child of Hampden to marry and have children. He married Louisa Cecilia Blackwood, who was the daughter of Henry Martin Blackwood and of Harriet Louisa Bulkeley, and the granddaughter of Vice-Admiral Henry Blackwood, on 20 July 1867. They had four children before he died in 1905.^[1]

• Violet Mary Clement (1868 - 1943)
• Maud Clement (1871 - 1931) who married Oliver Philip Stanhope Ingham, who was a grandson of Charles Stanhope, 7th Earl of Harrington.
• Sydney Reynold Clement (1873 - 1915) who moved to Australia in 1911 and was killed in action at Anzac Cove on 25 April 1915.^[8]
• Ida Kathleen Clement (1875 - 1965) who married Horace West, who was the son of William Gladstone's Principal Private Secretary Sir Algernon West.

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