Vere Beauclerk, 1st Baron Vere

Who was Vere Beauclerk, 1st Baron Vere?

Admiral Vere Beauclerk, 1st Baron Vere, known as Lord Vere Beauclerk until 1750, was a British peer and politician, a son of the 1st Duke of St Albans and a grandson of King Charles II.

From February 1731–1739 he commanded HMS Anglesea.

On 13 April 1736, in London, he married Mary Chambers, a maternal granddaughter of the 2nd Earl of Berkeley. They later had six children:

Lord Vere Beauclerk

Lord Chambers Beauclerk

Lord Sackville Beauclerk

The Hon. Aubrey Beauclerk

Lady Elizabeth Beauclerk; buried on 26 April 1746

The Hon. Mary Beauclerk; who married Lord Charles Spencer, son of the 3rd Duke of Marlborough.

From 1726 to 1741 he was Member of Parliament for Windsor and for Plymouth from 1741 to 1750. On his retirement from politics in 1750, he was created Baron Vere, of Hanworth in the County of Middlesex.

Lord Vere was elected one of the first Vice Presidents of London's charitable Foundling Hospital for abandoned children, an unpaid position. He served in that capacity from the institution's first year of 1739 until 1756, but then again from 1758 until 1767.