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

Courtesy of St. Albans Museums.

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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 ...
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1 Wimbledon, Surrey, England
1 St Albans, Hertfordshire, England
1 Egham, Surrey, England

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

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1 london

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 Pageant Master

Person/s with primary responsibility for execution of the pageant

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1 Swinson, Cyril
1 Lally, Gwen
1 Kirwan, Patrick

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Names of script-writers and other credited authors

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1 Swinson, Cyril
1 Radice, Fulke
1 Lally, Gwen
1 Home, Gordon
1 Drinkwater, John

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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 Young, G. Coleman
1 Wood, Charles
1 Williams, Ralph Vaughan
1 Whyte, Robert
1 Warlock, Peter
1 Walton, William
1 Stanley, John
1 Purcell, Henry
1 Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus
1 Meyerbeer, Giacomo
1 Lindsay, Robert
1 Kreisler, Fritz
1 John of Forness
1 Holst, Gustav
1 Henry VIII
1 Handel, George Frideric
1 Gibbons, Ellis
1 Foster, Arnold
1 Elgar, Edward
1 Earle, Giles
1 Dunstable, John
1 Dowland, John
1 Darewski, Hermann
1 Covey-Crump, Lewis
1 Chirbury, Robert
1 Byrd, William
1 Benet, John
1 Balfe, Michael

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3 Churchill [née Jenyns], Sarah, duchess of Marlborough
3 Anne
2 Wolsey, Thomas
2 Warenne, William
2 Philippa [Philippa of Hainault]
2 Henry VIII
2 Elizabeth I
2 Bacon, Francis, Viscount St Alban
1 Wriothesley, Henry, second earl of Southampton Sidney, Sir Philip
1 William [William Ætheling, William Adelinus, William Adelingus]
1 Wilberforce, William
1 Whethamstede [Bostock], John
1 Wells, Hugh of
1 Wellesley [formerly Wesley], Arthur, first duke of Wellington
1 Vespasian [Titus Flavius Vespasianus]
1 Vere, Robert de, third earl of Oxford
1 Trollope, Sir Andrew
1 Tooke, John Horne [formerly John Horne]
1 Stigand
1 Stephen
1 Stanley [née Sackville-West], Mary Catherine, countess of Derby [other married name Mary Catherine Gascoyne-Cecil, marchioness of Salisbury]
1 Stafford, Ralph, first earl of Stafford
1 Siddons [née Kemble], Sarah
1 Seymour, Charles, sixth duke of Somerset
1 Seymour [née Percy], Elizabeth, duchess of Somerset
1 Seymour [née Grey], Katherine, countess of Hertford
1 Salisbury, Roger of
1 Roches, Peter des [Peter de Rupibus]
1 Ralegh, Sir Walter
1 Radcliffe, Henry, fourth earl of Sussex
1 Pole, Reginald
1 Pole, Michael de la, first earl of Suffolk
1 Pole, John de la, second duke of Suffolk
1 Pitt, William [known as Pitt the younger]
1 Percy, Henry, third earl of Northumberland
1 Neville, Richard, sixteenth earl of Warwick and sixth earl of Salisbury [called the Kingmaker]
1 Mowbray, William de
1 Mowbray, John
1 Mortimer, Roger
1 Montagu, William [William de Montacute], second earl of Salisbury
1 Mogg, Mary [Molly]
1 Matilda [Edith, Mold, Matilda of Scotland]
1 Mary I
1 Marshal, William
1 Margaret [Margaret of Anjou]
1 Longespée [Lungespée], William
1 London, Henry of [Henry de Loundres]
1 Langton, Stephen
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 Kyriell, Sir Thomas
1 Knollys, Sir Francis
1 Katherine [Kateryn, Catherine; née Katherine Parr]
1 Katherine [Catalina, Catherine, Katherine of Aragon]
1 John II
1 John
1 Joan [Joan of the Tower]
1 James VI and I
1 Humphrey [Humfrey or Humphrey of Lancaster]
1 Holland, Henry, second duke of Exeter
1 Herbert, Philip, first earl of Montgomery and fourth earl of Pembroke
1 Henry VI
1 Henry I
1 Hamilton [née Lyon], Emma, Lady Hamilton
1 Gwyn, Eleanor [Nell]
1 Grimston, Sir Samuel, third baronet
1 Grey [married name Dudley], Lady Jane
1 Gresham, Sir Thomas
1 Gray, Walter de
1 Godolphin, Sidney, first earl of Godolphin
1 George, prince of Denmark and duke of Cumberland
1 George III
1 Gay, John
1 Fox, Charles James
1 Forz [Fortibus], William de, count of Aumale
1 Fitzwalter, Robert
1 Evelyn, John
1 Eleanor [Eleanor of Castile]
1 Edward [Edward of Woodstock; known as the Black Prince]
1 Edward [Edward of Westminster], prince of Wales
1 Edward II [Edward of Caernarfon]
1 Digby, George, second earl of Bristol
1 David II
1 Cromwell, Thomas, earl of Essex
1 Cranmer, Thomas
1 Clare, Richard de, sixth earl of Gloucester and fifth earl of Hertford
1 Churchill, John, first duke of Marlborough
1 Charles V
1 Charles II
1 Cecil, William, first Baron Burghley
1 Cavendish [née Spencer], Georgiana, duchess of Devonshire
1 Catton [known as Bronde], Robert
1 Catherine [Catherine of Valois]
1 Burgh, Hubert de, earl of Kent
1 Bourchier, Henry, first earl of Essex
1 Boudicca [Boadicea]
1 Bonville, William, first Baron Bonville
1 Boleyn, George, Viscount Rochford
1 Bohun, Henry de, first earl of Hereford
1 Bloet, Robert
1 Beaufort, Henry, second duke of Somerset
1 Beauchamp, Thomas, eleventh earl of Warwick
1 Bacon, Sir Nicholas
1 Bacon, Anthony
1 Bacon [née Cooke], Anne, Lady Bacon
1 Aubigny, William d' [William de Albini], third earl of Arundel
1 Astley, John
1 Anne [Anne Boleyn]

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