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St. Albans Pageant, 1907: Queen Elizabeth at Gorhambury.

Courtesy of St. Albans Museums.

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Oxford Pageant of Victory
From the book of words and its references to several hundred participants in some scenes, this appears to have been a very large pageant, and was one of a number held in the aftermath of the First ...
The Chelsea Historical Pageant
Performed in 1908, the Chelsea Pageant was part of the initial wave of ‘pageantitis’, and notably the first pageant to be staged within the capital. ‘Little Chelsea’, declared The Times, was ‘going...

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1 Oxford, Oxfordshire, England
1 Chelsea, Middlesex, England

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1 london

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1 Irvine, J. Harry
1 Bergerac, Bernice de

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2 Spenser, Edmund
2 Binyon, Laurence
1 Tennyson, Alfred Lord
1 Shakespeare, William
1 Rawnsley, F.A.
1 Petrarch, Francesco
1 O’Neill, Mrs Edward
1 Lee, G. Ambrose
1 Irvine, J. Harry
1 Hawtrey, Miss
1 Dryden, John
1 Cran, Mrs George
1 Cochrane, Arthur
1 Cochrane, Alfred
1 Burrows, Ione
1 Blunt, Reginald
1 Bergerac, Bernice de
1 Alexander, Russell

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1 Williams, Ralph Vaughan
1 Purcell, Henry
1 Irvine, J. Harry
1 Henry VIII
1 Handel, George Frideric
1 Elgar, Edward
1 Bucalossi, Ernest

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 Historical Figure

Includes any figure with listing in ODNB, important foreigners (eg. Julius Caesar), mythological and fictional characters

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2 George [St George]
1 Íte ingen Chinn Fhalad [M' Íte; Deirdre; Ita]
1 Wren, Sir Christopher
1 Woffington, Margaret [Peg]
1 Wharton, Thomas, first marquess of Wharton, first marquess of Malmesbury, and first marquess of Catherlough
1 Warham, William
1 Vaughan, Richard, second earl of Carbery
1 Trelawny, Sir Jonathan, third baronet
1 Swift, Jonathan
1 Steele, Sir Richard
1 Smollett, Tobias George
1 Sloane, Sir Hans, baronet
1 Seymour, Thomas, Baron Seymour of Sudeley
1 Saint-Évremond, Charles de Marguetel de Saint-Denis de
1 Roper, William
1 Roper [née More], Margaret
1 Robartes, John, first earl of Radnor
1 Richard I [called Richard Coeur de Lion, Richard the Lionheart]
1 Ralegh, Sir Walter
1 Philip the Good
1 Petrarch, Francesco
1 Pepys, Samuel
1 Patrick [St Patrick, Pádraig]
1 Orso, Count of Anguillara
1 Offa
1 Munden, Sir John
1 More, Sir Thomas [St Thomas More]
1 More, Sir John
1 More [née Harpur; other married name Middleton], Alice, Lady More
1 More [née Cresacre], Anne
1 Monsey, Messenger
1 Margaret [St Margaret]
1 Mandubratius
1 Malcolm III [Mael Coluim Ceann Mór, Malcolm Canmore]
1 Luttrell, Narcissus
1 Kéroualle, Louise Renée de Penancoët de, suo jure duchess of Portsmouth and suo jure duchess of Aubigny in the French nobility
1 King, John
1 Katherine [Kateryn, Catherine; née Katherine Parr]
1 Johnson, Samuel
1 John [John of Lancaster], duke of Bedford
1 Isabella of Portugal
1 Humphrey [Humfrey or Humphrey of Lancaster], duke of Gloucester [called Good Duke Humphrey]
1 Howard, Charles, second Baron Howard of Effingham and first earl of Nottingham
1 Holbein, Hans, the younger
1 Heron, Cicely
1 Henry VIII
1 Henry V
1 Heidegger, Johann Jakob
1 Gwyn, Eleanor [Nell]
1 Grey [married name Dudley], Lady Jane
1 Gorges, Sir Arthur
1 Goldsmith, Oliver
1 George II
1 Garrick, David
1 Fox, Sir Stephen
1 Fletcher, John
1 Fisher, John [St John Fisher]
1 Fielding, Henry
1 Erasmus, Desiderius
1 Elizabeth I
1 Eleanor [Eleanor of Castile]
1 Eleanor [Eleanor of Aquitaine], suo jure duchess of Aquitaine
1 Edward VI
1 Edward II [Edward of Caernarfon]
1 Edward I
1 Ecgferth
1 Dudley, Lord Guildford
1 Doggett, Thomas
1 Divitiacus
1 David [St David, Dewi]
1 Clement [Clements; née Giggs], Margaret
1 Cheyne, William, second Viscount Newhaven
1 Charles VI
1 Charles II
1 Cecil, Robert, first earl of Salisbury
1 Cassivellaunus
1 Camillus
1 Caesar [Gaius Julius Caesar]
1 Cabot, John [Zuan Caboto]
1 Bray, Sir Reynold [Reginald]
1 Boswell, James
1 Beauchamp, Richard, thirteenth earl of Warwick
1 Baldwin [Baldwin of Forde]
1 Bacon, Sir Francis
1 Arthur
1 Andrew [St Andrew]
1 Addison, Joseph

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