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

Courtesy of St. Albans Museums.

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West Dorset Historical Pageant
The West Dorset Historical Pageant of 1911 was a fairly small event, performed six times over three days to crowds of around 3000. Its leading proponent was Alexander Meyrick Broadley, described by...
Wimbledon Park Pageant and Fair
Pageants in the suburbs of London were popular during the 1920s and 1930s. If interwar London was to be defined by its suburbs, made famous as John Betjeman’s ‘Metroland’, pageants themselves were ...
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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Historical Figure: Katherine [Kateryn, Catherine; Née Katherine Parr]

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1 Wimbledon, Surrey, England
1 Chelsea, Middlesex, England
1 Bradpole, Dorset, England

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1 Lloyd, Edward
1 Langford, C.F.
1 Kirwan, Patrick
1 Irvine, J. Harry

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Names of script-writers and other credited authors

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1 Spenser, Edmund
1 Pouncy, H.
1 O’Neill, Mrs Edward
1 Lee, G. Ambrose
1 Irvine, J. Harry
1 Hawtrey, Miss
1 Cran, Mrs George
1 Cochrane, Arthur
1 Cochrane, Alfred
1 Broadley, A.M.
1 Blunt, Reginald
1 Binyon, Laurence
1 Alexander, Russell

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2 Henry VIII
1 Young, G. Coleman
1 Irvine, J. Harry
1 Huntingdon, George
1 Handel, George Frideric
1 Elgar, Edward
1 Byrd, William
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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3 Katherine [Kateryn, Catherine; née Katherine Parr]
3 Elizabeth I
2 Seymour, Thomas, Baron Seymour of Sudeley
2 Ralegh, Sir Walter
2 Grey [married name Dudley], Lady Jane
2 Charles II
1 Wriothesley, Henry, second earl of Southampton Sidney, Sir Philip
1 Wren, Sir Christopher
1 Wolsey, Thomas
1 Woffington, Margaret [Peg]
1 Wilmot, Henry, first earl of Rochester
1 Wilberforce, William
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 Tooke, John Horne [formerly John Horne]
1 Swift, Jonathan
1 Stigand
1 Steele, Sir Richard
1 Smollett, Tobias George
1 Sloane, Sir Hans, baronet
1 Siddons [née Kemble], Sarah
1 Seymour [née Grey], Katherine, countess of Hertford
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 Radcliffe, Henry, fourth earl of Sussex
1 Pole, Reginald
1 Pitt, William [known as Pitt the younger]
1 Pepys, Samuel
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 Mandubratius
1 Luttrell, Narcissus
1 Lambart, Charles, first earl of Cavan
1 Kéroualle, Louise Renée de Penancoët de, suo jure duchess of Portsmouth and suo jure duchess of Aubigny in the French nobility
1 Knollys, Sir Francis
1 King, John
1 Johnson, Samuel
1 James VI and I
1 Howard, Charles, second Baron Howard of Effingham and first earl of Nottingham
1 Holbein, Hans, the younger
1 Heron, Cicely
1 Herbert, Philip, first earl of Montgomery and fourth earl of Pembroke
1 Henry VIII
1 Heidegger, Johann Jakob
1 Hamilton [née Lyon], Emma, Lady Hamilton
1 Gwyn, Eleanor [Nell]
1 Gresham, Sir Thomas
1 Gorges, Sir Arthur
1 Goldsmith, Oliver
1 George [St George]
1 George III
1 George II
1 Garrick, David
1 Fox, Sir Stephen
1 Fox, Charles James
1 Fletcher, John
1 Fisher, John [St John Fisher]
1 Fielding, Henry
1 Evelyn, John
1 Erasmus, Desiderius
1 Edward VI
1 Ecgferth
1 Dudley, Lord Guildford
1 Doggett, Thomas
1 Divitiacus
1 Digby, George, second earl of Bristol
1 Cromwell, Thomas, earl of Essex
1 Cranmer, Thomas
1 Clement [Clements; née Giggs], Margaret
1 Churchill [née Jenyns], Sarah, duchess of Marlborough
1 Cheyne, William, second Viscount Newhaven
1 Cecil, William, first Baron Burghley
1 Cecil, Robert, first earl of Salisbury
1 Cavendish [née Spencer], Georgiana, duchess of Devonshire
1 Cassivellaunus
1 Camillus
1 Caesar [Gaius Julius Caesar]
1 Bray, Sir Reynold [Reginald]
1 Boswell, James
1 Bacon, Sir Francis
1 Bacon, Francis, Viscount St Alban
1 Anne
1 Addison, Joseph

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