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