serviceyears laterwork commands death_date death_place birth_place allegiance birth_date nickname rank article_title name type
1610 -- 1639 royal navy vice-admiral and author '' hms resistance '' 1653 france ightfield , shropshire , england england 1586/7 the dread pirate captain henry mainwaring
 henry mainwaring privateer
henry mainwaring

sir henry mainwaring -lrb- 1587 -- 1653 -rrb- , was an english lawyer , soldier , author , seaman and politician who sat in the house of commons from 1621 to 1622 .
he was for a time a pirate based in newfoundland and then a naval officer with the royal navy .
he supported the royalist cause in the english civil war .
