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

Courtesy of St. Albans Museums.

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The York Pageant
Louis Napoleon Parker, the acknowledged inventor of modern historical pageantry, chose to end his career as a pageant master in 1909. His final performance as a director of a large-scale pageant wa...
Lady Godiva Procession and Pageant
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The Romsey Pageant
The Romsey Pageant was first mooted in June 1906, in the midst of widespread pageant fever, when local civic dignitaries met to suggest a suitable celebration of the millenary of the founding of Ro...
English Church Pageant
Originally proposed by the Rev. Walter Marshall of St. Patrick’s Church, Hove, the English Church Pageant was at first going to take place in Brighton. When, during planning, the event grew conside...
Pageant of Northamptonshire History
Women’s Institute Pageants were highly popular during the 1920s and early 1930s, and county pageants were also greatly successful (see entries for the Pageants of Berkshire 1928, Staffordshire 1928...

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 Place

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1 York, Yorkshire, West Riding, England
1 Romsey, Hampshire, England
1 Harlestone, Northamptonshire, England
1 Fulham, Middlesex, England
1 Coventry, Warwickshire, England

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2 town
1 london
1 large town/city
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1 church

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 Pageant Master

Person/s with primary responsibility for execution of the pageant

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1 Seeley, Alfred
1 Parker, Louis Napoleon
1 Moss, Hugh
1 Lascelles, Frank
1 Drummond, Barbara
1 Benson, F.R.

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Names of script-writers and other credited authors

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1 Wilkinson, K.E.T.
1 Terry, J.E. Harold
1 Skrine, J.H.
1 Skilbeck, C.O.
1 Shakespeare, William
1 Rhoades, James
1 Peers, C.R.
1 Parker, Louis Napoleon
1 Moshead, Miss Anderson
1 Johnson, Ben
1 Hope, W.H. St. John
1 Drummond, Barbara
1 Dorling, Rev. E.E.
1 Dearmer, Percy
1 Cooke-Yarborough, W.H.
1 Bede

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2 Purcell, Henry
1 Wesley, Samuel Sebastian
1 Tours, Louis
1 Tendall, G.F.
1 Tallis, Thomas
1 Richards, T.C.
1 Noble, T. Tertius
1 Lawes, Henry
1 Henry VI
1 Gray, Alan
1 Elgar, Edward
1 Crüger, Johann
1 Croft, William
1 Cooke-Yarborough, W.
1 Ambrose, S.

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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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5 Henry Frederick, prince of Wales
3 James VI and I
3 Becket, Thomas [St Thomas of Canterbury, Thomas of London]
2 Æthelstan [Athelstan]
2 Áedán [St Áedán, Aidan]
2 Stephen
2 Rupert, prince and count palatine of the Rhine and duke of Cumberland
2 Philippa [Philippa of Hainault]
2 Percy, Henry, first earl of Northumberland
2 Parr, William, marquess of Northampton
2 Neville, Richard, sixteenth earl of Warwick and sixth earl of Salisbury [called the Kingmaker]
2 Margaret [Margaret of Anjou]
2 John [John of Gaunt], duke of Aquitaine and duke of Lancaster, styled king of Castile and León
2 James II and VII
2 Isabella [Isabella of France]
2 Henry II
2 Elizabeth, Princess [Elizabeth Stuart]
2 Edward IV
2 Edgar [called Edgar Pacificus]
2 Ealdred [Aldred]
2 Charles I
2 Aske, Robert
2 Anne [Anna, Anne of Denmark]
2 Andrewes, Lancelot
1 Ívarr [Ívarr inn Beinlausi, Ingwaer, Imhar]
1 Æthelwold [St Æthelwold, Ethelwold]
1 Æthelred I in Oswulf
1 Æthelflæd [Ethelfleda]
1 Æthelberht I [Ethelbert]
1 Ælfthryth
1 Ælfflæd [St Ælfflæd, Elfleda]
1 Wyclif [Wycliffe], John [called Doctor Evangelicus]
1 Wulfstan
1 Wortley, Sir Francis, first baronet and royalist army officer
1 William of York [St William of York, William fitz Herbert]
1 William le Gros, count of Aumale and earl of York
1 William III and II
1 William II [known as William Rufus]
1 William I [known as William the Conqueror] of England and duke of Normandy
1 William I [known as William the Conqueror]
1 William Herbert, second earl of Pembroke
1 Wilberforce, William
1 Weston, Sir William
1 Wesley, John
1 Wesley, Charles
1 Werburh [St Werburh, Werburgh, Werburga]
1 Wenlock, John, first Baron Wenlock
1 Waltheof, earl of Northumbria
1 Venutius
1 Valence, Aymer de, eleventh earl of Pembroke
1 Tunstal [Tunstall], Cuthbert and diplomat
1 Tunstal [Tunstall], Cuthbert
1 Trelawny, Sir Jonathan, third baronet
1 Tracy, William de
1 Tostig, earl of Northumbria
1 Thurstan York
1 Thornton, Henry
1 Thornborough, John
1 Thomas of Lancaster, second earl of Lancaster, second earl of Leicester, and earl of Lincoln
1 Thomas [Thomas of Bayeux, Thomas York]
1 Talbot, John, second earl of Shrewsbury and second earl of Waterford
1 Talbot, Gilbert, seventh earl of Shrewsbury
1 Talbot, George, sixth earl of Shrewsbury
1 Symmons, Edward
1 Sutton, John diplomat
1 Sudbury, Simon
1 Stuart, James, fourth duke of Lennox and first duke of Richmond
1 Stuart [Stewart], Ludovick, second duke of Lennox and duke of Richmond
1 Stewart, Alexander, duke of Albany and rebel
1 Sterne, Richard
1 Stanley, Thomas, first earl of Derby
1 Stanley, Sir John
1 Stafford, Henry, second duke of Buckingham
1 Siward, earl of Northumbria
1 Sir Richard Tempest
1 Sir John Gresham
1 Shipton, Mother
1 Seymour, Edward, duke of Somerset [known as Protector Somerset]
1 Seton, Sir Alexander
1 Septimius Severus, Lucius
1 Seagrave [Segrave], Nicholas
1 Scrope, Richard
1 Scrope, John, fifth Baron Scrope of Bolton
1 Scott [formerly Crofts], James, duke of Monmouth and first duke of Buccleuch
1 Sancroft, William
1 Russell, John, first earl of Bedford
1 Rotherham [Scot], Thomas York
1 Ros, Thomas, ninth Baron Ros
1 Robert I [Robert Bruce]
1 Richard [Richard
1 Richard III and lord of Ireland
1 Richard II and lord of Ireland, and duke of Aquitaine
1 Restitutus
1 Ralegh, Sir Walter
1 Queen Æthelburh
1 Pole, John de la, earl of Lincoln and rebel
1 Phelip, William, Baron Bardolf
1 Petty, Sir William
1 Percy, Sir Henry [called Henry Hotspur]
1 Percy, Henry, ninth earl of Northumberland
1 Percy, Henry, fourth earl of Northumberland
1 Percy, Henry Algernon, sixth earl of Northumberland
1 Paulinus [St Paulinus] of York and of Rochester Paulinus
1 Paulet, John, fifth marquess of Winchester [Lord St John]
1 Patrick [St Patrick, Pádraig]
1 Parker, Matthew
1 Overall, John
1 Oswiu [Oswy] Northumbria
1 Oswald [St Oswald]
1 Ostorius Scapula, Publius
1 Ninian [St Ninian]
1 Neville, Ralph, first earl of Westmorland
1 Neville, John, Marquess Montagu
1 Nelson, Horatio, Viscount Nelson
1 Murdac, Henry archbishop of York
1 Mowbray, Thomas first duke of Norfolk
1 Mowbray, Thomas
1 Mowbray, Sir Roger de
1 Morville, Hugh de
1 Morcar, earl of Northumbria
1 Montagu, Edward, second earl of Manchester
1 Melton, William
1 Maudeleyn, Richard
1 Matilda [Edith, Mold, Matilda of Scotland]
1 Mary [Mary Stewart]
1 Marmion, Robert
1 Manners, Henry, second earl of Rutland
1 Malet, William
1 Malebisse [Malebysse], Richard
1 Lyster, Sir Richard
1 Lloyd, Charles
1 Leofric, earl of Mercia
1 Leigh, Thomas, first Baron Leigh
1 Lee, Edward York
1 Layton, Richard
1 Laud, William
1 Latimer, Hugh
1 Langton, Stephen
1 Lake, Arthur
1 Ker, Robert, first earl of Roxburghe
1 Ken, Thomas
1 Keith, Sir Robert
1 Katherine [Catherine; née Katherine Howard] Henry VIII
1 Julius Agricola, Gnaeus [known as Agricola] of Britain
1 John the Chanter [Johannes Cantor; nicknamed Planeta]
1 John [John of Lancaster], duke of Bedford
1 John [John of Gaunt]
1 John Harrington, fourth Baron Harrington
1 John
1 James VI and I England, and Ireland
1 Howard, Thomas, third duke of Norfolk
1 Howard, Thomas, second duke of Norfolk
1 Howard, Thomas, first earl of Suffolk
1 Hotham, John
1 Home, Alexander, first earl of Home
1 Hodgkin, John
1 Hild [St Hild, Hilda]
1 Hereward [called Hereward the Wake]
1 Herbert, Sir Thomas, first baronet
1 Henry VIII and Ireland
1 Henry VI and lord of Ireland, and duke of Aquitaine
1 Henry VI
1 Henry V
1 Henry IV [known as Henry Bolingbroke] of Aquitaine
1 Henry IV [known as Henry Bolingbroke]
1 Henry I
1 Henrietta Maria [Princess Henrietta Maria of France] Charles I
1 Harold II [Harold Godwineson]
1 Hamilton [née Lyon], Emma, Lady Hamilton
1 Hadrian [Traianus Hadrianus]
1 Guy of Warwick
1 Guest, Edmund [Edmund Gest]
1 Grey, Henry, first Baron Grey of Groby
1 Graham, James, first marquess of Montrose
1 Gospatric, earl of Northumbria
1 Godgifu [Godiva]
1 Glemham, Sir Thomas
1 Germanus [St Germanus]
1 George, duke of Clarence
1 George [St George]
1 George IV
1 Fitzwilliam, William, earl of Southampton administrator
1 Fitzwalter, Robert
1 Fitzurse, Reginald
1 Fitzalan, Thomas, fifth earl of Arundel and tenth earl of Surrey administrator
1 Fitzalan, Richard fourth earl of Arundel and ninth earl of Surrey
1 Fitzalan, Henry, twelfth earl of Arundel
1 Fairfax, Thomas, third Lord Fairfax of Cameron
1 Fairfax, Ferdinando, second Lord Fairfax of Cameron
1 Erik Bloodaxe [Eiríkr Blóðöx, Eiríkr Haraldsson]
1 Elizabeth, Princess [Elizabeth Stuart] electress palatine, consort of Frederick V
1 Elizabeth I
1 Elfleda
1 Egerton, Thomas, first Viscount Brackley
1 Edward, styled earl of Warwick
1 Edward [called Edward the Elder]
1 Edward [Edward of Woodstock; known as the Black Prince], prince of Wales and of Aquitaine
1 Edward [Edward of Westminster], prince of Wales
1 Edward [Edward of Middleham], prince of Wales
1 Edward VI
1 Edward III and lord of Ireland, and duke of Aquitaine
1 Edward III
1 Edward II [Edward of Caernarfon] of Aquitaine
1 Edmund I
1 Edgar Ætheling or after 1125)
1 Ecgberht [Egbert]
1 Eborius
1 Eanflæd [St Eanflæd] Northumbria, consort of King Oswiu
1 Ealdgyth [Aldgyth]
1 Eadwine [St Eadwine, Edwin]
1 Eadberht [Eadbert]
1 Dunstan [St Dunstan]
1 Dugdale, Sir William
1 Dudley, Robert, earl of Leicester
1 Dudley, Ambrose, earl of Warwick
1 Douglas, Sir James [called the Black Douglas]
1 Dormer, Robert, first earl of Carnarvon
1 Devereux, John, Baron Devereux and royal councillor
1 Despenser, Hugh, the younger, first Lord Despenser
1 Denewulf
1 Darcy, Thomas, Baron Darcy of Darcy rebel
1 Darcy, Sir John administrator
1 Curll, Walter
1 Coverdale, Miles
1 Courtenay, Thomas, fourteenth earl of Devon
1 Courtenay, Peter
1 Constantius I [Flavius Valerius Constantius; called Constantius Chlorus]
1 Constantine I [Flavius Valerius Constantinus; known as Constantine the Great]
1 Constable, Sir William, baronet
1 Constable, Sir Robert [iv]
1 Constable, Sir Robert
1 Columba [St Columba, Colum Cille]
1 Colmán [St Colmán]
1 Cobbett, John
1 Clotworthy, John, first Viscount Massereene
1 Charles Lewis [Karl Ludwig] of the Rhine
1 Charles II Scotland, and Ireland
1 Charles II
1 Charles I Scotland, and Ireland
1 Cavendish, William, first duke of Newcastle upon Tyne royalist army officer
1 Catesby, Robert
1 Cartimandua [Claudia Cartimandua, Julia Cartimandua] of the Brigantes
1 Carausius [Marcus Aurelius Mausaeus Carausius]
1 Caratacus [Caractacus]
1 Caracalla [Marcus Aurelius Antoninus]
1 Campbell, Archibald, seventh earl of Argyll
1 Butler, James, first earl of Wiltshire and fifth earl of Ormond
1 Burgh, Hubert de, earl of Kent
1 Brus [Bruce], Robert
1 Brittany, John of, earl of Richmond and administrator
1 Brandon, Charles, first duke of Suffolk and soldier
1 Brandon, Charles, first duke of Suffolk
1 Bowes, Sir Robert
1 Bourchier, Thomas
1 Booth [Bothe], William
1 Bohun, Humphrey de, fourth earl of Hereford and ninth earl of Essex
1 Bertie, Robert, first earl of Lindsey
1 Bertha
1 Bellingham, Sir Edward
1 Beaufort, Thomas, duke of Exeter
1 Beaufort, John, marquess of Dorset and marquess of Somerset and administrator
1 Beaufort, Henry [called the Cardinal of England]
1 Beauchamp, Thomas, twelfth earl of Warwick
1 Beauchamp, Richard
1 Beauchamp, John, first Baron Beauchamp of Powick
1 Barlow, John
1 Bardolf, Thomas, fifth Baron Bardolf
1 Bagot, Sir William
1 Babington [Babyngton], William
1 Arundel [Fitzalan], Thomas archbishop of Canterbury
1 Anne [née Anne Neville]
1 Anne [Anne of Bohemia]
1 Anne [Anna, Anne of Denmark] of James VI and I
1 Alnwick, William
1 Allectus
1 Alcuin [Albinus, Flaccus]
1 Agilbert Saxon
1 Abbot, George

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