Squire Bence (15 May 1597 – 27 November 1648) was an English merchant, seafarer and politician who sat in the House of Commons of England from 1640 to 1648.
[2] In the 1620s he is recorded as raiding an Algerian ship and removing Christian slaves and prisoners from it.
He was re-elected in 1642 as MP for Aldeburgh when he joined his brother Alexander Bence in the Long Parliament.
[5] Bence died aged 51 years, 6 months and 12 days at Thorington Suffolk[6] although he is also commemorated on the family monument at Aldeburgh.
[7] Bence married Elizabeth Pett on 26 August 1617 at St. Dunstan, Stepney, London.