Henry Mainwaring in the King's cause in the English Civil War, was exiled to France, and died in poverty. He was buried at St. Giles' Church, Camberwell, London, on 15 May 1653. Mainwaring married a daughter of Sir Thomas Gardiner in 1630. She died in 1633. His brothers were Sir Arthur Mainwaring, Carver to Prince Henry, George Mainwaring, the defender of Tong Castle, and Sir Thomas Mainwaring, the Recorder of Reading. The Mainwaring family was old and distinguished, probably having arrived in England in the train of William the Conqueror (1066). Henry Mainwaring Sir Henry Mainwaring (1587–1653), was an English lawyer, soldier,
Captain Mainwaring At heart, he is a kind-hearted man with a deep-rooted sense of duty. Mainwaring has nearly had two affairs. One is in Mum's Army with a woman called Fiona Gray who joins the Home Guard. The two start meeting in cafes all over the town. Gossip starts about them and Mrs Gray leaves by train. Another is with a bus conductress in A Soldier's Farewell whom Mainwaring compliments and defends when she is being flirted at. At the end of the episode, when Mainwaring dreams he is Napoleon, he dreams that the bus conductress is Marie Walewska (Napoleon's mistress). In