Captain Mainwaring Captain Mainwaring Captain George Mainwaring () is a fictional character portrayed by Arthur Lowe in the BBC television sitcom "Dad's Army". He is the bank manager and Home Guard platoon commander, in the fictional seaside town of Walmington-on-Sea during the Second World War. He has become widely accepted and regarded as a classic British comic character owing to the popularity of both "Dad's Army" and Lowe's portrayal of him. Mainwaring was born in 1885 to Edmund Mainwaring and is a pompous, blustering figure with an overdeveloped sense of his importance, fuelled by his social status in Walmington-on-Sea as the bank
Townshend Mainwaring for Denbighshire. Townshend Mainwaring Townshend Mainwaring (16 March 1807 – 25 December 1883) was a British Conservative Party politician. Mainwaring was the second son of the Reverend Charles Mainwaring and Sarah Townshend, daughter of John Townshend. He married Anna Maria Salusbury, the eldest daughter of Colonel John Lloyd Salusbury, in 1837. Mainwaring was first elected MP Denbigh Boroughs in 1841 but stood down at the 1847 election. He returned to parliament for the same seat in 1857 and held it until 1868. In 1840, Mainwaring was High Sheriff of Denbighshire, and he was also at some point a Justice of