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

Courtesy of St. Albans Museums.

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Beneath Hadrian's Tower: A Historical Pageant
This pageant was one of a great many held across the UK to mark the occasion of the queen's coronation in 1953. Owing to saturation coverage of the coronation and the royal family, as well as the a...
The Pageant of Thornhill
The Pageant of Thornhill was an elaborate example of a post-war village pageant. It was one of the last pageants performed in West Yorkshire after the fiasco of the Bradford Centenary Pageant (1947...

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1 Pobjoy, H.N.
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2 Morley, Thomas
2 Handel, George Frideric
2 German, Edward
1 Williams, Ralph Vaughan
1 Sullivan, Arthur
1 Pobjoy, Rev. H.N.
1 Parry, Hubert
1 Gilbert, W.S.
1 Gay, John
1 Burleigh, H.T.
1 Ansell, John

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1 Wemyss, David, styled sixth earl of Wemyss [known as Lord Elcho]
1 Stanley, James, seventh earl of Derby
1 Savile, Sir William, third baronet
1 Savile, Sir George, eighth baronet
1 Savile, George, first marquess of Halifax
1 Sarah Fell
1 Rotherham [Scot], Thomas of York
1 Priestley, Joseph and natural philosopher
1 Paulden, Thomas army officer
1 Osberht
1 Ogilvy, David, styled sixth earl of Airlie
1 Murray, William, styled second duke of Atholl and marquess of Tullibardine
1 Murray, Lord George
1 How, William Walsham of Wakefield
1 Herschel, William and astronomer
1 Forbes, Alexander, fourth Lord Forbes of Pitsligo
1 Fell [née Askew], Margaret
1 Fairfax, Ferdinando, second Lord Fairfax of Cameron
1 Drummond, James, styled sixth earl of Perth and Jacobite third duke of Perth
1 Charles Edward [Charles Edward Stuart; styled Charles III; known as the Young Pretender, Bonnie Prince Charlie]
1 Cavendish, Henry philosopher
1 Boyd, William, fourth earl of Kilmarnock

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