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

Courtesy of St. Albans Museums.

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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...
English Church Pageant
Originally proposed by the Rev. Walter Marshall of St. Patrick’s Church, Hove, the English Church Pageant was at first going to take place in Brighton. When, during planning, the event grew conside...
Pageant of Northamptonshire 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 Berkshire 1928, Staffordshire 1928...

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 Place

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

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1 Romsey, Hampshire, England
1 Harlestone, Northamptonshire, England
1 Fulham, Middlesex, England

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

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 Pageant Master

Person/s with primary responsibility for execution of the pageant

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1 Moss, Hugh
1 Lascelles, Frank
1 Drummond, Barbara
1 Benson, F.R.

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 Author

Names of script-writers and other credited authors

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1 Skrine, J.H.
1 Skilbeck, C.O.
1 Peers, C.R.
1 Moshead, Miss Anderson
1 Johnson, Ben
1 Hope, W.H. St. John
1 Drummond, Barbara
1 Dorling, Rev. E.E.
1 Dearmer, Percy
1 Cooke-Yarborough, W.H.
1 Bede

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 Composer

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

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1 Wesley, Samuel Sebastian
1 Tours, Louis
1 Tallis, Thomas
1 Richards, T.C.
1 Purcell, Henry
1 Lawes, Henry
1 Henry VI
1 Elgar, Edward
1 Crüger, Johann
1 Croft, William
1 Cooke-Yarborough, W.
1 Ambrose, S.

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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 Henry Frederick, prince of Wales
3 Becket, Thomas [St Thomas of Canterbury, Thomas of London]
2 James VI and I
2 Edgar [called Edgar Pacificus]
2 Anne [Anna, Anne of Denmark]
2 Andrewes, Lancelot
1 Æthelwold [St Æthelwold, Ethelwold]
1 Æthelstan [Athelstan]
1 Æthelflæd [Ethelfleda]
1 Æthelberht I [Ethelbert]
1 Ælfthryth
1 Áedán [St Áedán, Aidan]
1 Wyclif [Wycliffe], John [called Doctor Evangelicus]
1 William II [known as William Rufus]
1 William I [known as William the Conqueror]
1 Wilberforce, William
1 Weston, Sir William
1 Wesley, John
1 Wesley, Charles
1 Werburh [St Werburh, Werburgh, Werburga]
1 Tunstal [Tunstall], Cuthbert
1 Trelawny, Sir Jonathan, third baronet
1 Tracy, William de
1 Thornton, Henry
1 Talbot, George, sixth earl of Shrewsbury
1 Symmons, Edward
1 Sudbury, Simon
1 Sterne, Richard
1 Sir John Gresham
1 Seymour, Edward, duke of Somerset [known as Protector Somerset]
1 Sancroft, William
1 Russell, John, first earl of Bedford
1 Restitutus
1 Phelip, William, Baron Bardolf
1 Petty, Sir William
1 Percy, Henry, first earl of Northumberland
1 Paulet, John, fifth marquess of Winchester [Lord St John]
1 Patrick [St Patrick, Pádraig]
1 Parr, William, marquess of Northampton
1 Parker, Matthew
1 Overall, John
1 Oswald [St Oswald]
1 Ninian [St Ninian]
1 Morville, Hugh de
1 Matilda [Edith, Mold, Matilda of Scotland]
1 Manners, Henry, second earl of Rutland
1 Lyster, Sir Richard
1 Lloyd, Charles
1 Layton, Richard
1 Laud, William
1 Latimer, Hugh
1 Langton, Stephen
1 Lake, Arthur
1 Ken, Thomas
1 John the Chanter [Johannes Cantor; nicknamed Planeta]
1 John [John of Gaunt]
1 John
1 Hodgkin, John
1 Herbert, Sir Thomas, first baronet
1 Henry VI
1 Henry II
1 Henry I
1 Guest, Edmund [Edmund Gest]
1 Grey, Henry, first Baron Grey of Groby
1 Germanus [St Germanus]
1 George [St George]
1 Fitzwalter, Robert
1 Fitzurse, Reginald
1 Fitzalan, Henry, twelfth earl of Arundel
1 Elizabeth, Princess [Elizabeth Stuart]
1 Elfleda
1 Egerton, Thomas, first Viscount Brackley
1 Edward [called Edward the Elder]
1 Edward VI
1 Ealdred [Aldred]
1 Dunstan [St Dunstan]
1 Dudley, Ambrose, earl of Warwick
1 Denewulf
1 Coverdale, Miles
1 Courtenay, Peter
1 Constable, Sir Robert [iv]
1 Columba [St Columba, Colum Cille]
1 Cobbett, John
1 Clotworthy, John, first Viscount Massereene
1 Charles I
1 Burgh, Hubert de, earl of Kent
1 Bourchier, Thomas
1 Bertha
1 Bellingham, Sir Edward
1 Beaufort, Henry [called the Cardinal of England]
1 Beauchamp, Richard
1 Barlow, John
1 Babington [Babyngton], William
1 Aske, Robert
1 Alnwick, William
1 Abbot, George

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