MAINWARING, Edward (1577-1647), of Whitmore, Staffs.

Whitmore was some four miles from Newcastle, for which borough Mainwaring was returned while still at the Middle Temple. He was a parliamentarian in the civil war, and died in 1647. The 1625 MP for Newcastle-under-Lyme was his son.PCC 46 Dorset; J. C. Wedgwood, Staffs. Parl. Hist.(Wm. Salt Arch. Soc.), i.; Vis. Staffs. (Wm. Salt Arch. Soc. v. pt. 2), 207-8; Wm. Salt Arch. Soc. 1912, p. 287; T. Pape, Newcastle-under-Lyme, 50, 80, 268; Committee at Stafford (Staffs. Rec. Soc. ser. 4, i), 353.