Major Reynold Alleyne Clement was an English first-class cricketer 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.
12 Facts About Reynold Clement
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Reynold Alleyne Clement was born at Cabbage Tree Hall at Saint Peter, Barbados, on 3 March 1834, to Hampden Clement, who was an English landowner who was educated at Rugby School and Exeter College, Oxford, and Philippa Cobham Alleyne.
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Reynold was the nephew of Martha Clement who was the wife of Colonel Thomas Moody, Kt.
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Reynold Clement had three siblings: Richard, Rosalie Philippa Hampden Clement, and Helena Rebecca Clement.
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Reynold Clement was raised in England at No 23 and No 20 Wilton Crescent, Belgravia, where his father owned No 21, and at Snarestone Lodge, Snarestone, Leicestershire.
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Reynold Clement was educated at Rugby School and at Trinity College, Cambridge, at which he matriculated in 1853.
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Reynold Clement 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.
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Reynold Clement played for Cambridge only in the 1854 season.
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Reynold Clement was appointed secretary to the Board of Trustees of Ascot Racecourse in 1881, and Clerk of the Course at the same in 1885, as which he made 'vast improvements' to the course and to the stands.
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Reynold Clement was in 1900 Secretary to the Master of the Buckhounds.
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Reynold Clement was the only child of Hampden to marry and have children.
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Reynold Clement 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.