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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. Bence was the son of Alexander Bence and his wife Marie Squier daughter of Thomas Squier.〔(the Peerage.com )〕 He was a merchant and shipowner who undertook trading expeditions by sea. Bence Island in the estury of the Sierra Leone River was named after him.〔(Jonathan Huddleston ''And the Children's Teeth are Set on Edge'' )〕 In the 1620s he is recorded as raiding an Algerian ship and removing Christian slaves and prisoners from it.〔(Kenneth R. Andrews ''Ships, money, and politics: seafaring and naval enterprise in the reign of Charles I'' )〕 In April 1640, Bence was elected Member of Parliament for Aldeburgh in the Short Parliament. He was re-elected in 1642 as MP for Aldeburgh when he joined his brother Alexander Bence in the Long Parliament. He sat until his death in 1648. 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.〔( ''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 )〕 Bence died aged 51 years, 6 months and 12 days at Thorington Suffolk〔(The registers of the parish of Thorington in the county of Suffolk, with notes of the different acts of Parliament referring to them, and notices of the Bence family, with pedigree, and other families )〕 although he is also commemorated on the family monument at Aldeburgh.〔(Bence&grave=12 )〕 Bence married Elizabeth Pett on 26 August 1617 at St. Dunstan, Stepney, London.〔 His second wife was Mary.〔 ==References== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Squire Bence」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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