# Clement Royds

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[Colonel](/source/Colonel_(United_Kingdom)) '''Sir Clement Molyneux Royds''' {{postnominals|country=GBR|size=100%|CB|TD|DL|FSA}} (3 April 1842 – 28 January 1916) was a British soldier who was the [Conservative](/source/Conservative_Party_(UK)) [Member of Parliament](/source/Member_of_Parliament_(United_Kingdom)) (MP) for [Rochdale](/source/Rochdale_(UK_Parliament_constituency)) from 1895 to 1906.<ref name="WWW">{{cite web |title=Royds, Col Sir Clement Molyneux, (3 April 1842–28 Jan. 1916), late Colonel Commanding Duke of Lancaster's Own Imperial Yeomanry; Hon. Colonel 2nd Battalion Lancashire Fusiliers; Knight of Justice of the Order of St John of Jerusalem in England |url=http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whoswho/U202473 |website=[Who Was Who](/source/Who_Was_Who) |publisher=Oxford University Press |access-date=4 April 2021 |language=en |date=1 December 2007}}</ref>

He stood unsuccessfully in 1892, won the seat from the [Liberals](/source/Liberal_Party_(UK)) in 1895, held it in 1900, but lost it to them in the Liberal landslide of 1906. He was [commanding officer](/source/commanding_officer) of the [Duke of Lancaster's Own Yeomanry](/source/Duke_of_Lancaster's_Own_Yeomanry) and was then [honorary](/source/honorary_rank) [colonel](/source/Colonel_(United_Kingdom)) of the 2nd Battalion [Lancashire Fusiliers](/source/Lancashire_Fusiliers).<ref name="WWW" /> He was also Chairman of the [Rochdale Canal Company](/source/Rochdale_Canal).<ref>{{Cite news |date=23 February 1900 |title=The Rochdale Canal Company |work=The Manchester Guardian |pages=7}}</ref>

==Philanthropy==
At a meeting of the [Royal National Lifeboat Institution](/source/Royal_National_Lifeboat_Institution) (RNLI) committee of management on Thursday 6 January 1887, the receipt of £700 from Col. Royds was acknowledged, to be appropriated to the purchase of a new lifeboat for {{Lbs|St Annes}} in [Lancashire](/source/Lancashire). The lifeboat was named ''Nora Royds'' (ON 194), and served at the station from 1887 until 1908.<ref name="RoydsCM">{{cite journal |title=Summary of the Meetings of the Committee |journal=The Lifeboat |date=1 August 1887 |volume=XXIII |issue=145 |page=405 |url=https://lifeboatmagazinearchive.rnli.org/volume/13/145/summary-of-the-meetings-of-the-committee |access-date=3 January 2026}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Leonard |first1=Richie |last2=Denton |first2=Tony |title=Lifeboat Enthusiasts Handbook 2025 |date=2025 |publisher=Lifeboat Enthusiasts Society |page=24}}</ref>

==References==
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===Sources===
*{{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20141009222304/http://www.leighrayment.com/commons/Rcommons1.htm Leigh Rayment's Historical list of MPs]}}
*Craig, F.W.S. ''British Parliamentary Election Results 1885-1918''
*''[Whitaker's Almanack](/source/Whitaker's_Almanack)'', 1893 to 1910 editions
*[http://lafayette.org.uk/roy3580.html Portrait]

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Category:Imperial Yeomanry officers
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Category:British Army personnel of the Second Boer War
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