Captain Mainwaring Flag patterned arrowhead to reflect the opening credits of the TV series and the sculpture has been designed so that one can sit next to Captain Mainwaring and have one's photo taken. In the 2016 film based on the sitcom, Mainwaring is played by Toby Jones. In 2019, the three episodes of Dads Army that are missing from the BBC archives are being re-shot by UKTV Channel GOLD, in which actor Kevin McNally will take on the mantle of Captain Mainwaring. Captain Mainwaring Captain George Mainwaring () is a fictional character portrayed by Arthur Lowe in the BBC television sitcom
Townshend Mainwaring 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 the Peace