Vere Beauclerk (1699 - 1781)

Born 14 Jul 1699 in London, England

Ancestors

Husband of Mary (Chambers) Beauclerk — married 13 Apr 1736 in Saint James, Westminster, London, England

Descendants

Died 21 Oct 1781 at age 82 in St James's Square, London, England

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Admr. Lord Vere Beauclerk was a member of the aristocracy in British Isles.

Biography

Lord Vere Beauclerk, was the third son of Charles Beauclerk, 1st Duke of St Albans, and his wife, Lady Diana de Vere and was born 14 July 1699. ^[1]

He entered the Navy, about 1713^[2] and was promoted to the rank of Captain 30 May 1721 and appointed to the frigate Lyme and served in the Mediterranean 1722-27 under Sir Charles Wager. As this was during peace time most of his action seemed to be sailing from Lisbon to Genoa and back again on a regular basis.^[3] He returned to England on 7 July 1727 and was appointed to the Hampton Court in June 1731

Apart from his naval career, he was also a Member of Parliament; first being elected to the seat of New Windsor, in Berkshire on 31 May 1726 - February 1738. Elected for that seat again on 27 March 1738 - 1741

He died aged 82 on 2 October 1781^[4] at his house in St James's Square, London and was buried on 6 October, in a vault in St James Church, Westminster.^[5]

Sources

• W. A. B. Douglas, ‘Beauclerk, Vere, Baron Vere of Hanworth (1699–1781)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2008 accessed 16 Nov 2017

• Charnock, John, Biographia navalis: or impartial memoirs of the lives and characters of

• Lea, R.S., 'Beauclerk, Lord Vere (1699-1781), of Hanworth, Mdx.' in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1715-1754, edited by R. Sedgwick, 1970. Available online at The History of Parliament: British Political, Social & Local History website, (http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1715-1754/member/beauclerk-vere-1699-1781 : viewed 15 November 2015).

• Wikipedia contributors, 'Vere Beauclerk, 1st Baron Vere', Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, 1 April 2015, (https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Vere_Beauclerk,_1st_Baron_Vere&oldid=654505236 : viewed 15 November 2015).

• The Peerage

• Wikidata: Item Q135111
• Fact: Burial (6 October 1781) St. James's Church, Westminster, Middlesex, England
• Fact: http://familysearch.org/v1/TitleOfNobility 1st Baron of Vere
• Fact: Military Service Admiral

Sources

1. ↑ Cokayne, p. 256; Lea
2. ↑ Lea
3. ↑ Charnock, p. 90
4. ↑ not 21 October as in the Wikipedia article
5. ↑ Charnock, p. 92-93 - date of death and burial place; Cokayne, p. 256 - all details; Lea - only date he died;

• "Family Tree," database, FamilySearch (http://familysearch.org : modified 01 September 2023, 12:59), entry for Admiral Vere Beauclerk 1st Baron Vere (PID https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/4:1:LH11-KRF ); contributed by various users.