Major-General Rowland Broughton Mainwaring CMG (11 September 1850 – 22 November 1926) was a senior British Army officer.
Educated at Marlborough College, Mainwaring was commissioned into the 23rd Regiment of Foot on 30 January 1878.
[1] He saw action in the Third Anglo-Ashanti War in 1873, the Third Anglo-Burmese War in 1885 and the Bhanio Mogoumg expedition in 1886 as well as the Hazara expedition in 1891.
[2] He became commanding officer of the 2nd Battalion Royal Welch Fusiliers, which he commanded in Crete, for which service he was appointed a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George,[3] and then took part in the Second Boer War in 1899.
[2] He went on to serve as commander of the 23rd Regimental District from 1900 to 1906 and as General Officer Commanding 68th (2nd Welsh) Division from January 1915 to November 1915.