Reynold Clement

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

Early life
Reynold Alleyne Clement was born at Cabbage Tree Hall (later Alleynedale Hall) at Saint Peter, Barbados on 3 March 1834. He was the son of Hampden Clement (14 April 1807 – 4 February 1880), an English landowner educated at Exeter College, Oxford, and of Philippa Cobham Alleyne. His paternal grandfather was Richard Clement (1753-1829), whose ancestors had settled in Barbados by the 1660s. Richard owned and managed several plantations throughout Barbados and Demerara. His English residence was 13 Bolton Street, Mayfair. Reynold was the nephew of Martha Clement, who was the wife of Colonel Thomas Moody, Kt., who named a son, Hampden Clement Blamire Moody, after Clement's father, and through whom he was related to Major-General Richard Clement Moody, who was the founder and the first Lieutenant-Governor of British Columbia. Reynold was named after his maternal grandfather, Sir Reynold Abel Alleyne, 2nd Baronet (1789 – 1870) of Barbados. Reynold Clement had three siblings: Richard (1832-1873), Rosalie Philippa Hampden Clement (1838-1912), and Helena Rebecca Clement (1853-1935).

Reynold Clement was raised in England at No. 23 and No. 20 Wilton Crescent, Belgravia, and at Snarestone Lodge, Snarestone, Leicestershire. He was educated at Rugby School and at Trinity College, Cambridge, at which he matriculated in 1853. At Cambridge, as a consequence of the abolitionist sympathies of many of the undergraduates, Reynold stated that he had been born at Snarestone Lodge, Leicestershire, although his actual birthplace was Barbados.

Cricket
He played cricket as a middle-order batsman both at Rugby School and at Cambridge University: in 1854 he was selected for the University Match against Oxford University, although he failed to score in either innings. He played for Cambridge only in the 1854 season. There is no record that he graduated from Cambridge University. 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 and appeared in the 1853 University Match.

Army
After Cambridge, Clement joined the 68th Regiment and served during the 1860s in the New Zealand Wars, in which he attained the rank of Major. In 1876, he was a member of Queen Victoria's personal bodyguard.

Ascot Racecourse
He 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 the stands.

Marriage and family
Reynold was the only child of Hampden who would go on to marry and have children of his own. He married Louisa Cecilia Blackwood, daughter of Henry Martin Blackwood and Harriet Louisa Bulkeley, and granddaughter of Vice-Admiral Henry Blackwood, on 20 July 1867. They had four children:
 * Violet Mary Clement (1868-1943)
 * Maud Clement (1871-1931, married Oliver Philip Stanhope Ingham, a grandson of Charles Stanhope, 7th Earl of Harrington)
 * Sydney Reynold Clement (1873-1915, moved to Australia in 1911 and killed in action at Anzac Cove on 25 April 1915)
 * Ida Kathleen Clement (1875-1965, married Horace West, son of Algernon West)

Reynold died in 1905.