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

Courtesy of St. Albans Museums.

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 Place

Names of locations of pageants; doesn't include specific locales such as town square

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1 Worksop, Nottinghamshire, England
1 Portsmouth, Hampshire, England

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 Pageant Type

Type of social collective or organization a pageant was intended to celebrate

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1 large town/city
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Person/s with primary responsibility for execution of the pageant

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1 Maybury, Beatrice
1 Bedford, Cicely

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Names of script-writers and other credited authors

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1 Morony, Myra
1 Bedford, Cicely

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 Composer

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

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2 Williams, Ralph Vaughan
2 Purcell, Henry
2 German, Edward
2 Fletcher, Percy
2 Bach, Johann Sebastian
1 Warlock, Peter
1 Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus
1 Lully, Jean-Baptiste
1 Handel, George Frideric
1 Farnaby, Giles
1 Dykes, John Bacchus
1 Dussek, Ronald
1 Bull, John
1 Bruch, Max
1 Brewer, Herbert
1 Alderson, Percy

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

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1 William Savile, second marquess of Halifax
1 William III and II
1 Wilfrid [St Wilfrid]
1 Wilberforce, Samuel
1 Vernon, James
1 Saint Paul the Apostle
1 Richard I [called Richard Coeur de Lion, Richard the Lionheart]
1 Petre, Sir William
1 Pelham, Thomas, first Baron Pelham
1 Howard, Henry, seventh duke of Norfolk
1 Hood, Robin
1 Henrietta Maria [Princess Henrietta Maria of France]
1 Harley [née Holles], Henrietta Cavendish, countess of Oxford and Mortimer
1 Godolphin, Francis, second earl of Godolphin
1 Gisors, Jean de
1 Croker, John Wilson
1 Charles II
1 Charles I
1 Cavendish, William, first duke of Newcastle upon Tyne
1 Cavendish, Henry, second duke of Newcastle upon Tyne
1 Cavendish, Charles
1 Catherine [Catherine of Braganza, Catarina Henriqueta de Bragança]
1 Blois, Henry de
1 Bentinck, William Henry Cavendish Cavendish-, third duke of Portland
1 Bentinck, Margaret Cavendish [née Lady Margaret Cavendish Harley], duchess of Portland
1 Baring,

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