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

Courtesy of St. Albans Museums.

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St Albans Pageant 1953: A Masque of the Queens
Having staged a pageant during the height of Edwardian ‘pageant fever’ in 1907, as well as one of the early post-war pageants in 1948, St Albans did it for the third time during the Coronation cele...
Shropshire Historical Pageant
The Shropshire Pageant, held in the same season as the Runnymede Pageant, managed to combine a grandeur and spectacle of performance with a distinctive local feel, eschewing the more generic visits...

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1 St Albans, Hertfordshire, England
1 Ludlow, Shropshire, England

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 Pageant Master

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1 Swinson, Cyril
1 Baring, Edward

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 Author

Names of script-writers and other credited authors

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1 Swinson, Cyril
1 Seaman, Sir Owen
1 Milton, John
1 Drinkwater, John
1 Collard, Avalon

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Includes names of composers at time of pageants, original composers, and those who did arrangements

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2 Purcell, Henry
2 Holst, Gustav
1 Wood, Charles
1 Williams, Ralph Vaughan
1 Whyte, Robert
1 Warlock, Peter
1 Walton, William
1 Sullivan, Arthur
1 Stanley, John
1 Saville, John
1 Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus
1 Meyerbeer, Giacomo
1 Lindsay, Robert
1 Lawes, William
1 Lawes, Henry
1 Kreisler, Fritz
1 John of Forness
1 Hilton, John
1 Handel, George Frideric
1 Gibbons, Ellis
1 Foster, Arnold
1 Elgar, Edward
1 Earle, Giles
1 Dykes, John Bacchus
1 Dunstable, John
1 Dowland, John
1 Covey-Crump, Lewis
1 Collard, Avalon
1 Chirbury, Robert
1 Bury, Frank
1 Bennel, John
1 Benet, John
1 Balfe, Michael

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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 Matilda [Edith, Mold, Matilda of Scotland]
2 Henry I
2 Eleanor [Eleanor of Castile]
1 William [William Ætheling, William Adelinus, William Adelingus]
1 William II [known as William Rufus]
1 William I [known as William the Conqueror]
1 Whethamstede [Bostock], John
1 Warenne, William
1 Trollope, Sir Andrew
1 Stephen
1 Stanley [née Sackville-West], Mary Catherine, countess of Derby [other married name Mary Catherine Gascoyne-Cecil, marchioness of Salisbury]
1 Sidney, Sir Philip
1 Sidney, Sir Henry
1 Salisbury, Roger of
1 Pole, John de la, second duke of Suffolk
1 Philippa [Philippa of Hainault]
1 Percy, Henry, third earl of Northumberland
1 Ostorius Scapula, Publius
1 Neville, Richard, sixteenth earl of Warwick and sixth earl of Salisbury [called the Kingmaker]
1 Mowbray, John
1 Mildburg [St Mildburg, Milburg, Milburga, Milburgh]
1 Matilda [Matilda of Flanders]
1 Margaret [Margaret of Anjou]
1 Leofric, earl of Mercia
1 Kyriell, Sir Thomas
1 Humphrey [Humfrey or Humphrey of Lancaster]
1 Holland, Henry, second duke of Exeter
1 Henry VIII
1 Henry VI
1 Harold II [Harold Godwineson]
1 Grimston, Sir Samuel, third baronet
1 Greville, Fulke, first Baron Brooke of Beauchamps Court
1 Godgifu [Godiva]
1 George, prince of Denmark and duke of Cumberland
1 Elizabeth I
1 Edward [St Edward; known as Edward the Confessor]
1 Edward [Edward of Westminster], prince of Wales
1 Edward V
1 Edward I
1 Edith [Eadgyth]
1 Eadric [Edric] the Wild [Eadric Cild]
1 Dafydd ap Gruffudd
1 Cnut [Canute]
1 Churchill, John, first duke of Marlborough
1 Churchill [née Jenyns], Sarah, duchess of Marlborough
1 Catton [known as Bronde], Robert
1 Catherine [Catherine of Valois]
1 Cartimandua [Claudia Cartimandua, Julia Cartimandua]
1 Caratacus [Caractacus]
1 Bourchier, Henry, first earl of Essex
1 Boudicca [Boadicea]
1 Bonville, William, first Baron Bonville
1 Boleyn, George, Viscount Rochford
1 Bloet, Robert
1 Beaufort, Henry, second duke of Somerset
1 Bacon, Sir Nicholas
1 Bacon, Francis, Viscount St Alban
1 Bacon, Anthony
1 Bacon [née Cooke], Anne, Lady Bacon
1 Astley, John
1 Ashton, Thomas
1 Anne [Anne Boleyn]
1 Anne
1 Alfred [Ælfred]
1 Alcock, John

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