Vere Beauclerk, 1st Baron Vere

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Admiral Vere Beauclerk, 1st Baron Vere (14 July 1699 – 21 October 1781), 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, he married Mary Chambers, a maternal granddaughter of the 2nd Earl of Berkeley. They later had six children (four of whom died young), including The Hon. Aubrey Beauclerk (1740–1802) and The Hon. Mary Beauclerk, who married Lord Charles Spencer (a younger son of the 3rd Duke of Marlborough).

From 1726 to 1741 he was Member of Parliament (MP) for Windsor and for Plymouth (succeeding his brother Henry) 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.

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• Ships of the RN
• R.H. Nichols and F A. Wray, The History of the Foundling Hospital (London: Oxford University Press, 1935), pp. 412-413.

Parliament of Great Britain
Preceded by Earl of Burford The Earl of Inchiquin	Member of Parliament for Windsor with The Earl of Inchiquin 1726–1727 Viscount Malpas 1727–1733 Lord Sidney Beauclerk 1733–1741 1726–1741	Succeeded by Lord Sidney Beauclerk Henry Fox
Preceded by Arthur Stert Lord Henry Beauclerk	Member of Parliament for Plymouth with Arthur Stert 1741–1750	Succeeded by Arthur Stert Charles Saunders
Political offices
Preceded by The Duke of St Albans	Lord Lieutenant of Berkshire 1761–1771	Succeeded by The Duke of St Albans
Peerage of Great Britain
New title	Baron Vere 1750–1781	Succeeded by Aubrey Beauclerk