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

Courtesy of St. Albans Museums.

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Bath Historical Pageant
Edwardian Pageants can accurately be said to have followed a domino-effect where a pageant, either in the locality or in a town of similar size, provoked the inception of another—for the sake of ke...
Pageant of Hampshire 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 Staffordshire 1928 and Northampton...
Chester Historical Pageant
In the foreword to the Official Souvenir Book of the pageant, the Master of the Pageant, George Hawtrey, claimed that: ‘Of all the cities in England there is none that binds the life of to-day so c...
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...

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1 Romsey, Hampshire, England
1 Hursley, Hampshire, England
1 Chester, Cheshire, England
1 Bath, Somerset, England

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3 town
1 institutional

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1 Weir, Mrs Robert
1 Lascelles, Frank
1 Hawtrey, George P.
1 Benson, F.R.

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2 Skrine, J.H.
1 Tylee, Edward S.
1 Stevens, F.E.
1 Spurling, Claribel
1 Shakespeare, William
1 Scott, Walter
1 Prowse, C.B.
1 Moshead, Miss Anderson
1 Morris, Rupert
1 Milton, John
1 Macdonald, S.F.
1 Lovell, A.E.
1 Hawtrey, George P.
1 Hanks, W.P.
1 Cooke-Yarborough, W.H.
1 Clay, Beatrice
1 Carr, Cecil T.
1 Broadley, A.M.
1 Bowley, W.L.

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4 Ælfthryth
4 Edgar [called Edgar Pacificus]
2 William II [known as William Rufus]
2 Oswald [St Oswald]
2 Matilda [Edith, Mold, Matilda of Scotland]
2 James VI and I
2 Elizabeth I
2 Dunstan [St Dunstan]
2 Charles I
2 Anne [Anna, Anne of Denmark]
1 Æthelwold [St Æthelwold, Ethelwold]
1 Æthelstan [Athelstan]
1 Æthelred II [Ethelred; known as Ethelred the Unready]
1 Æthelflæd [Ethelfleda]
1 Wood, John
1 Wolfe, James
1 William IV
1 William Augustus, Prince, duke of Cumberland
1 Wilkes, John
1 Weston, Sir William
1 Wesley [Westley], John
1 Warner, Richard
1 Warburton, William
1 Walpole, Horatio [Horace], fourth earl of Orford
1 Waller, Sir William
1 Taylor, Sir Herbert
1 Symmons, Edward
1 Stanhope, Philip Dormer, fourth earl of Chesterfield
1 Smollett, Tobias George
1 Sheridan, Richard Brinsley
1 Shakespeare, William
1 Seymour, Edward, first earl of Hertford
1 Scudamore, Frances Fitzroy- [Frances Scudamore, duchess of Beaufort]
1 Saumarez, James, first Baron de Saumarez
1 Russell, John, fourth duke of Bedford
1 Richardson, Samuel
1 Richard II
1 Richard I [called Richard Coeur de Lion, Richard the Lionheart]
1 Ralegh, Sir Walter
1 Pulteney, William, earl of Bath
1 Prynne, William
1 Pritchard [née Vaughan], Hannah
1 Popham, Alexander
1 Pope, Alexander
1 Pitt, William, first earl of Chatham [known as Pitt the elder]
1 Pitt [née Grenville], Hester, countess of Chatham and suo jure Baroness Chatham
1 Piozzi [née Salusbury; other married name Thrale], Hester Lynch
1 Petty, Sir William
1 Percy, Henry, ninth earl of Northumberland
1 Percy, Henry, first earl of Northumberland
1 Perceval, John, second earl of Egmont
1 Payne, Antony [Anthony; called Cornish Giant]
1 Parker, George, second earl of Macclesfield
1 Otway, Sir Robert Waller, first baronet
1 More, Hannah
1 Montagu [née Robinson], Elizabeth
1 Maurice, prince palatine of the Rhine
1 Marlowe [Marley], Christopher
1 Lytton, Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer [formerly Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer], first Baron Lytton
1 Lyster, Sir Richard
1 Lisle, Lady Alice [née Alice Beconsawe]
1 Ley, James, third earl of Marlborough
1 Layton, Richard
1 Lady Arabella [Arbella]
1 King, Oliver
1 King James I
1 Kenneth II [Cináed mac Maíl Choluim]
1 Julius Agricola, Gnaeus [known as Agricola]
1 Jeffreys, George, first Baron Jeffreys
1 Howard, Henry, twelfth earl of Suffolk and fifth earl of Berkshire
1 Hopton, Ralph, Baron Hopton
1 Herbert, Sir Thomas, first baronet
1 Henry VII
1 Henry IV [known as Henry Bolingbroke]
1 Henry II
1 Henry I
1 Henry Frederick, prince of Wales
1 Hastings [née Shirley], Selina, countess of Huntingdon
1 Harington, John, first Baron Harington of Exton
1 Halford [formerly Vaughan], Sir Henry, first baronet
1 Grosvenor, Sir Richard, first baronet
1 Grenville [Grenvile], Sir Bevil [Bevill]
1 Gerald of Wales [Giraldus Cambrensis, Gerald de Barry]
1 George IV
1 Fuller, Thomas
1 Fox, Henry, first Baron Holland of Foxley
1 Fitzmaurice, Henry Petty-, third marquess of Lansdowne
1 Fitzherbert [née Smythe; other married name Weld]
1 Fielding, Sarah
1 Fielding, Henry
1 Fellowes, Sir James
1 Elphinstone, George Keith, Viscount Keith
1 Elphinstone [née Thrale], Hester Maria, Viscountess Keith
1 Elizabeth, Princess [Elizabeth Stuart]
1 Elizabeth, Princess
1 Eleanor [Eleanor of Castile]
1 Edward [called Edward the Elder]
1 Edward [St Edward; called Edward the Martyr]
1 Edward I
1 Dormer, Robert, first earl of Carnarvon
1 Digby, Kenelm Henry
1 Dickens, Charles John Huffam
1 Denewulf
1 Daniel, Samuel
1 Crabbe, George
1 Cope, Sir John [Jonathan]
1 Cobbett, John
1 Chudleigh, Elizabeth [married names Elizabeth Hervey, countess of Bristol; Elizabeth Pierrepont, duchess of Kingston upon Hull]
1 Cecil, William, first Baron Burghley
1 Ceawlin
1 Cavendish, William, fourth duke of Devonshire
1 Byron, John, first Baron Byron
1 Burney [married name D'Arblay], Frances [Fanny]
1 Burke, Edmund
1 Bowles, William Lisle
1 Boscawen, Edward
1 Berengaria [Berengaria of Navarre]
1 Becket, Thomas [St Thomas of Canterbury, Thomas of London]
1 Beauchamp, Richard
1 Baldwin [Baldwin of Forde]
1 Avranches, Hugh d', first earl of Chester
1 Austen, Jane
1 Anstey, John
1 Anselm [St Anselm]
1 Andrewes, Lancelot
1 Amelia [Emily], Princess

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