John Mainwaring John Mainwaring John Mainwaring (1724–1807) was an English theologian and the first biographer of the composer Georg Friedrich Händel in any language. He was a Fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge, and became rector of the parish of Church Stretton, Shropshire, and, later professor of Divinity at Cambridge. In 1760, one year after Handel was buried in Westminster Abbey he published anonymously a biography 'Memoirs of the Life of the Late George Frederic Handel'. More than half of this biography is focused on the years before 1712, when Handel moved to London. Therefore, it is supposed he received information from
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