[4] He returned to the Board again when the Broad Bottom ministry came to power in December 1744 and was promoted to rear admiral on 23 April 1745.

[4] Beauclerk was elected one of the first Vice Presidents of London's charitable Foundling Hospital for abandoned children, an unpaid position.

[6] From 1726 to 1741 Beauclerk was a Member of Parliament (MP) for Windsor and for Plymouth (succeeding his brother Henry) from 1741 to 1750.

[1] On his retirement from politics in 1750, he was created Baron Vere, of Hanworth in the County of Middlesex.

[7] On 13 April 1736, in London, he married Mary Chambers (c. 1714-21 January 1783),[8] a maternal granddaughter of the 2nd Earl of Berkeley.