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
Philip Mainwaring House of Commons for Clonakilty from 1634 to 1635 and for Carysfort from 1640 to 1641. Mainwaring was elected MP for Morpeth for the Short Parliament in April 1640. He was imprisoned in 1650. In December 1660, Mainwaring was appointed to the Irish Privy Council. He was then elected MP for Newton in the Cavalier Parliament in 1661, but died later that year. Philip Mainwaring Sir Philip Mainwaring (1589 – 2 August 1661) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons variously between 1625 and 1661. Mainwaring was the son of Randall Mainwaring, of Peover, Cheshire. He