Alexander Wynch (1721 – 1781) was an English merchant, a career civil servant of the East India Company who became Governor of Madras.
He was removed as governor in 1775, in the wake of his handling of the affair of Thuljaji, the Rajah of Thanjavur (Tanjore), who in fighting in south India had been dispossessed by Muhammed Ali Khan Wallajah, the Nawab of Arcot.
The company disapproved of the change in the previous policy of ensuring the Rajah and Nawab were bound by treaty.
[1] In England, Wynch lived in Upper Harley Street in London, and then Gifford Lodge in Twickenham.
[5] His daughter Frances became notorious when she eloped with Sir William Jervis Twysden, 7th Baronet.