Alexander Bence

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Alexander Bence (born ca. 1590) was an English merchant and politician who sat in the House of Commons of England from 1640 to 1648 and in 1654. He supported the Parliamentarian side in the English Civil War.

Biography

Bence was the son of Alexander Bence and his wife Marie Squier daughter of Thomas Squier. [1]

In November 1640, Bence was elected Member of Parliament for Aldeburgh in the Long Parliament and sat until he was excluded under Pride's Purge. [2] In 1642 he was appointed by parliament as one of the Commissioners for the Affairs of (His Majesty's) Navy, the King having prevented all his principal officers of the navy from performing their duties. [3] Bence was a member of the Worshipful Company of Grocers in the City of London and became an Alderman for Walbrook ward in May, 1653. [4] In 1654 he was elected MP for Suffolk in the First Protectorate Parliament. [2] He was master of Trinity House from 1659 to 1660. [4]

Bence married as his first wife Anne Aylett of Rendham Suffolk and his son by her, John Bence was later also MP for Aldeburgh. [5] Bence's brother Squire Bence was also MP for Aldeburgh during the Long Parliament.

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References

  1. John Burke. A genealogical and heraldic history of the commoners of Great ..., Volume 3
  2. 1 2 Willis, Browne (1750). Notitia Parliamentaria, Part II: A Series or Lists of the Representatives in the several Parliaments held from the Reformation 1541, to the Restoration 1660 ... London. pp.  229–239.
  3. September 1642: Ordinance appointing Commissioners of the Navy. Acts and Ordinances of the Interregnum, 1642-1660 (1911), pp. 27–29. Date accessed: 27 November 2010
  4. 1 2 Chronological list of aldermen: 1651–1700, The Aldermen of the City of London: Temp. Henry III – 1912 (1908), pp. 75–119. Date accessed: 13 January 2011
  5. Basil Duke Henning The House of Commons, 1660–1690
Parliament of England
Preceded by Member of Parliament for Aldeburgh
1640–1648
With: William Rainsborough
Squire Bence
Succeeded by
Not represented in the Rump or Barebones parliaments
Preceded by Member of Parliament for Suffolk
1654
With: Sir William Spring
Sir Thomas Barnardiston
Sir Thomas Bedingfield
William Blois
William Gibbes
John Brandling
John Gurdon
John Sicklemore
Thomas Bacon
Succeeded by