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, on the same street as his son-in-law Colonel Thomas Moody, ADC, Kt. who resided at No. 23.
Marriages His first wife,Slave Trade: Return to an Address of the Honourable House of Commons, dated 12 March 1827, Copy of any further Reports made to His Majesty’s Government by Thomas Moody, Esquire, and John Dougan, Esquire […], Colonial Department, Downing Street, 11 June 1827, Printed 12 June 1827, p. 55 whom he married in Demerara, was Susannah Dougan (d. 1786), who was the daughter of the Demerara planter Thomas Dougan,Records of the Monument to John Dougan (1765 - 1826), on the Monument to his son-in-law Charles Boileau Elliott, St. Mary's Church Graveyard, Tattingstone, Suffolk, England who is commemorated in the south transept of St George's Cathedral, Georgetown,Memorials of St. George's Cathedral, Georgetown, Guyana, Memorial for Thomas Dougan, South Transept and the sister of the Tortola privateer John Dougan (1765 – 1826). She died in Providence, Guyana, in 1786.
His second wife was Elizabeth Hampden (d. 1813), who was a relation of Renn Hampden, Bishop of Hereford, who was born in Barbados.The Hampshire Independent, 22 April 1848, p. 5Saunders's Newsletter and Daily Advertiser, 24 September 1849, p. 1 Elizabeth Hampden died, when aged 89 years, on 26 March 1813, on their estate in Barbados.Caribbeana: Being Miscellaneous Papers Relating to the History, Genealogy, Topography, and Antiquities, of the British West Indies, Volume II, by Langford Vere, Oliver, Published by Mitchell, Hughes, and Clark, London, 1912, p. 136
He was buried at St George's, Hanover Square, London.
Issue His children by his first wife Susannah Dougan (d. 1786) were: Martha Clement (1784–1868), who married the Royal Engineer Colonel Thomas Moody, CRE WI, ADC, Kt., to whose children Major General Richard Clement Moody, who was named after him, and Susannah Moody, he left monetary inheritance. Martha Clement's other children included The Rev. James Leith Moody and Colonel Hampden Clement Blamire Moody. Richard Clement Junior (6 November 1798 - 27 November 1823),Monument To Richard Clement Junior, Parish of St. James, Barbados of Trinity College, Oxford and Inner Temple, who was a royal commissioner in the West Indies, where he died on Nevis, who predeceased his father.
His children by his second wife Elizabeth Hampden (d. 1813) were: Hampden Clement (1807–1880), of No. 23, No. 20, 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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