George Boulton Mainwaring was a

Tory A Tory () is a person who holds a political philosophy known as Toryism, based on a British version of traditionalism and conservatism, which upholds the supremacy of social order as it has evolved in the English culture throughout history. Th ...

MP for

Middlesex Middlesex (; abbreviation: Middx) is a Historic counties of England, historic county in South East England, southeast England. Its area is almost entirely within the wider urbanised area of London and mostly within the Ceremonial counties of ...

, a position that had also been held by his father

William Mainwaring William Henry Mainwaring (1884 – 18 May 1971) was a Welsh people, Welsh coal miner, lecturer and trade unionist, who became a long-serving Labour Party (UK), Labour Party Member of Parliament. Both as a trade unionist and a politician he strugg ...

. Mainwaring is thought to have been born in 1773. He was the son of William Mainwaring. In the 1802 general election, William was opposed by the radical

Francis Burdett Sir Francis Burdett, 5th Baronet (25 January 1770 – 23 January 1844) was a British politician and Member of Parliament who gained notoriety as a proponent (in advance of the Chartists) of universal male suffrage, equal electoral districts, vo ...

. William had previously resisted Burdett's calls for an inquiry into Prison abuses, particularly at

Coldbath Fields Prison Coldbath Fields Prison, also formerly known as the Middlesex House of Correction and Clerkenwell Gaol and informally known as the Steel, was a prison in the Mount Pleasant area of Clerkenwell, London. Founded in the reign of James I (1603–1625 ...

. William was defeated by Burdett but the election was declared void in 1804 and, in the following contest, George was elected. The result was reversed in favour of Burdett in 1805 and then back in favour of George in 1806. Mainwaring did not contest the 1807 election and Burdett was not elected.Jeremy Black;
George III: America's Last King
'; Yale University Press, 2006; The National Portrait Gallery has a caricature which includes Mainwaring that pokes fun at the 1804 election.1804 Middlesex election
James Gillray, 7 August 1804, accessed 7 August 2008 On 9 June 1804, Mainwaring married Letitia Wodehouse.Debrett's Peerage of England, Scotland, and Ireland
accessed 7 August 2008

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Mainwaring, George Boulton 1770s births 1820s deaths UK MPs 1802–1806 Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for English constituencies Tory MPs (pre-1834)