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

Courtesy of St. Albans Museums.

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Author%3Asmith%2C Sydney Goodsir
Composer: Purcell, Henry
Historical Figure%3Abernard
Historical Figure%3Aedward Ii %5Bedward Of Caernarfon%5D
Historical Figure%3Amenteith%2C Sir John
Historical Figure%3Arandolph%2C Thomas%2C First Earl Of Moray
Historical Figure: William Ii [Known As William Rufus]
Pageant Type%3Ainstitutional
Pageant Type%3Atown

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 Place

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

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1 Ludlow, Shropshire, England
1 Hursley, Hampshire, England
1 Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England

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 Pageant Type

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

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2 county:
1 institutional

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 Pageant Master

Person/s with primary responsibility for execution of the pageant

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1 Weir, Mrs Robert
1 Hawtrey, George P.
1 Baring, Edward

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 Author

Names of script-writers and other credited authors

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2 Milton, John
1 Stevens, F.E.
1 Shakespeare, William
1 Seaman, Sir Owen
1 Hawtrey, George P.
1 Drinkwater, John
1 Collard, Avalon
1 Ashburner, F.J.

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 Composer

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

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3 Purcell, Henry
2 Morley, Thomas
2 Elgar, Edward
1 Warrack, Guy
1 Sullivan, Arthur
1 Stanford, Charles Villiers
1 Schubert, Franz
1 Saville, John
1 Nicholls, Heller
1 Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus
1 Lawes, William
1 Lawes, Henry
1 Holst, Gustav
1 Hilton, John
1 Hann, Lewis
1 Handel, George Frideric
1 Dykes, John Bacchus
1 Dicks, Ernest A.
1 Collard, Avalon
1 Bury, Frank
1 Bennel, John
1 Bach, Johann Sebastian

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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 William II [known as William Rufus]
2 Ostorius Scapula, Publius
2 Matilda [Edith, Mold, Matilda of Scotland]
2 Elizabeth I
2 Caratacus [Caractacus]
1 Ælfthryth
1 William I [known as William the Conqueror]
1 Warenne, William
1 Vere, John de, thirteenth earl of Oxford
1 Spencer, Henry, first earl of Sunderland
1 Sidney, Sir Philip
1 Sidney, Sir Henry
1 Seymour, Edward, first earl of Hertford
1 Rupert, prince and count palatine of the Rhine and duke of Cumberland
1 Richard III
1 Richard I [called Richard Coeur de Lion, Richard the Lionheart]
1 Montgomery, Roger de, first earl of Shrewsbury
1 Mildburg [St Mildburg, Milburg, Milburga, Milburgh]
1 Matilda [Matilda of Flanders]
1 Massey, Sir Edward
1 Margaret [Margaret of Anjou]
1 Lisle, Lady Alice [née Alice Beconsawe]
1 Leofric, earl of Mercia
1 Jeffreys, George, first Baron Jeffreys
1 Henry I
1 Harold II [Harold Godwineson]
1 Gundulf
1 Greville, Fulke, first Baron Brooke of Beauchamps Court
1 Godgifu [Godiva]
1 George, duke of Clarence
1 George IV
1 George III
1 Fitzherbert [née Smythe; other married name Weld]
1 Eleanor [Eleanor of Castile]
1 Edward [St Edward; known as Edward the Confessor]
1 Edward [Edward of Westminster]
1 Edward V
1 Edward IV
1 Edward I
1 Edith [Eadgyth]
1 Edgar [called Edgar Pacificus]
1 Eadric [Edric] the Wild [Eadric Cild]
1 Devereux, Robert, third earl of Essex
1 Dafydd ap Gruffudd
1 Cnut [Canute]
1 Clare, Gilbert de [Gilbert fitz Richard, Gilbert of Tonbridge]
1 Chillingworth, William
1 Charlotte [Princess Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz]
1 Charles I
1 Cary, Lucius, second Viscount Falkland
1 Cartimandua [Claudia Cartimandua, Julia Cartimandua]
1 Burney [married name D'Arblay], Frances [Fanny]
1 Berengaria [Berengaria of Navarre]
1 Beaufort, Edmund, styled third duke of Somerset
1 Ashton, Thomas
1 Anselm [St Anselm]
1 Alfred [Ælfred]
1 Alcock, John

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