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

Courtesy of St. Albans Museums.

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Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Historical Pageant
The Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Historical Pageant took place in June 1935, in Wollaton Park. According to a correspondent writing in the Nottingham Guardian, the city’s effort was inspired by L...
Bradford Centenary Pageant
The previous Bradford Pageant, held in 1931, had continuously flirted with disaster, from torrential rains to Communist opposition to a militant weavers’ strike, which had forced the organizers to ...
The Pageant of London
The Pageant of London was the main attraction of the Festival of Empire at Crystal Palace in 1911. Undoubtedly the largest and most ambitious pageant of the Edwardian period, if not the whole twent...
Welbeck Abbey Historical Pageant
According to the Historic Houses Association, ‘The Welbeck Estate covers some 15,000 acres, nestled between Sherwood Forest and Clumber Park. At its heart lies Welbeck Abbey, a stately home which d...
Historical Pageant of Bradford
Tom Hulme has written about inter-war civic boosterism through pageantry, whereby cities competed to raise their profile and, often combined with industrial and trade exhibitions, sought to boost t...

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Historical Figure: Cavendish, William, First Duke Of Newcastle Upon Tyne

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2 Peel Park, Bradford, Yorkshire, West Riding, England
1 Worksop, Nottinghamshire, England
1 Sydenham, London, England
1 Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England

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2 Lascelles, Frank
1 Monck, Nugent
1 Ede, Christopher
1 Bedford, Cicely
1 Baring, Edward

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5 Cavendish, William, first duke of Newcastle upon Tyne
3 Hood, Robin
3 Charles I
2 Wolsey, Thomas
2 William I [known as William the Conqueror]
2 Tuck, Friar
2 Odo, earl of Kent
2 John [John of Gaunt], duke of Aquitaine and duke of Lancaster, styled king of Castile and León
2 Henrietta Maria [Princess Henrietta Maria of France]
2 Fairfax, Thomas, third Lord Fairfax of Cameron
2 Cavendish, Charles
2 Brewster, William
1 Óláf [Óláfr] Tryggvason
1 Æthelred II [Ethelred; known as Ethelred the Unready]
1 Æthelflæd [Ethelfleda]
1 Ælfwig
1 arausius [Marcus Aurelius Mausaeus Carausius]
1 Wyatt, Sir Henry
1 Wulfstan
1 Wren, Sir Christopher
1 Woodville [Wydeville], Richard, first Earl Rivers
1 Woodville [Wydeville], Anthony, second Earl Rivers
1 Winter, Sir William
1 Winslow, Edward
1 Willoughby, Sir Hugh
1 Williams, Sir Roger
1 William Savile, second marquess of Halifax
1 William III and II
1 William Augustus, Prince, duke of Cumberland
1 Whittington, Richard [Dick]
1 Whitshed, Sir James Hawkins, first baronet
1 White, Henry Kirke
1 West, Thomas, third Baron De La Warr
1 West, Nicholas
1 Wellesley [formerly Wesley], Arthur, first duke of Wellington
1 Warham, William
1 Walworth, Sir William
1 Walsingham, Sir Francis
1 Walpole, Horatio [Horace], fourth earl of Orford
1 Waldegrave, William, first Baron Radstock
1 Villiers, George, second duke of Buckingham
1 Villiers [married name Stuart], Mary, duchess of Lennox and Richmond
1 Victoria
1 Vernon, James
1 Verney, Sir Edmund
1 Urswick, Christopher
1 Ulf Fenisc
1 Tyler, Walter [Wat]
1 Turpin, Richard [Dick]
1 Tunstal [Tunstall], Cuthbert
1 Tuke, Sir Brian
1 Tudor, Jasper [Jasper of Hatfield], duke of Bedford
1 Tomlinson [Thomlinson], Matthew, appointed Lord Tomlinson under the protectorate
1 Tiptoft [Tibetot], John, first earl of Worcester
1 Thoroton, Robert
1 Thorkell the Tall [Þorkill inn Hávi], earl of East Anglia
1 Thomas of Lancaster, second earl of Lancaster, second earl of Leicester, and earl of Lincoln
1 The Earl of Warwick
1 The Earl of Oxford
1 Talbot, Gilbert, seventh earl of Shrewsbury
1 Talbot, George, sixth earl of Shrewsbury
1 Talbot [née Hardwick], Elizabeth [Bess; called Bess of Hardwick], countess of Shrewsbury
1 Sutton, Robert, first Baron Lexington
1 Suetonius Paullinus, Gaius
1 Sudbury, Simon
1 Stuart, Esmé, third duke of Lennox
1 Starkey, Sir Humphrey
1 Stanley, Thomas, first earl of Derby
1 Stanley, Sir William
1 Stanley, Edward, first Baron Monteagle
1 Stanhope, Sir Michael
1 Stanhope, Philip, first earl of Chesterfield
1 Standish, Myles
1 Stafford, Edward, third duke of Buckingham
1 Spencer, Sir John
1 Somerset, Edward, fourth earl of Worcester
1 Solander, Daniel
1 Smith, Sir Thomas
1 Smith, John
1 Smith, Donald Alexander, first Baron Strathcona and Mount Royal
1 Sir John
1 Shortland, John
1 Sandby, Thomas
1 Sandby, Paul
1 Russell [née Harington], Lucy, countess of Bedford
1 Rupert, prince and count palatine of the Rhine and duke of Cumberland
1 Roe, Sir Thomas
1 Robinson, John
1 Robert, count of Mortain
1 Richard de Burgh, Earl of Ulster
1 Richard III
1 Richard I [called Richard Coeur de Lion, Richard the Lionheart]
1 Ratcliffe, Sir Richard
1 Poynings, Sir Edward
1 Pole, Sir Charles Morice
1 Pocahontas [Matoaka, Amonute; married name Rebecca Rolfe]
1 Pitt, William, first earl of Chatham [known as Pitt the elder]
1 Pierrepont, Henry, marquess of Dorchester
1 Pierrepont, Francis
1 Peverel, William
1 Petre, Sir William
1 Percy, Henry, fourth earl of Northumberland
1 Pepys, Samuel
1 Pelham, Thomas, first Baron Pelham
1 Paulinus [St Paulinus]
1 Parker, Sir Peter, first baronet
1 Orde, Sir John, first baronet
1 Nugent, Sir Charles Edmund
1 Norris [Norreys], Sir John
1 Nias, Sir Joseph
1 Nanfan, Sir Richard
1 Mowbray, John
1 Morton, John
1 Moorsom, Sir Robert
1 Montagu, William [William de Montacute], second earl of Salisbury
1 Middleton, Sir Henry
1 McMillan, Margaret
1 Maurice, prince palatine of the Rhine
1 Matilda [Matilda of Flanders]
1 Mary, princess royal
1 Mary [Mary Stewart]
1 Marsden, Samuel
1 Margaret [Margaret Tudor]
1 MacDonnell [née Manners; other married name Villiers], Katherine, duchess of Buckingham and marchioness of Antrim
1 Lumley, John, fifth Baron Lumley
1 Lovell, Francis, Viscount Lovell
1 Longland, John
1 Lionel [Lionel of Antwerp], duke of Clarence
1 Ligonier, Edward [Francis Edward], Earl Ligonier of Clonmell
1 Leofwine, earl
1 Leofric
1 Lee, William
1 Langton, John
1 Laforey, Sir Francis
1 Lacy, Henry de, fifth earl of Lincoln
1 Lacy, Gilbert de
1 Kite, John
1 Katherine [Catalina, Catherine, Katherine of Aragon]
1 Juxon, William
1 John the Old Saxon
1 Joan, suo jure countess of Kent, and princess of Wales and of Aquitaine [called the Fair Maid of Kent]
1 Joan [Joan of Acre], countess of Hertford and Gloucester
1 Jermyn [Germain], Henry, earl of St Albans
1 James VI and I
1 James II and VII
1 Jahangir
1 Ireton, Henry
1 Hutchinson, John
1 Hutchinson [née Apsley], Lucy
1 Hussey [Huse], Sir William
1 Hungerford, Sir Walter
1 Hudson, Jeffery
1 Howard, Thomas, second duke of Norfolk
1 Howard, Theophilus, second earl of Suffolk
1 Howard, Henry, seventh duke of Norfolk
1 Howard, Charles, second Baron Howard of Effingham and first earl of Nottingham
1 Howard, Aletheia [née Talbot], countess of Arundel, of Surrey, and of Norfolk, and suo jure Baroness Furnivall, Baroness Talbot, and Baroness Strange of Blackmere
1 Hooke, Robert
1 Hood, Samuel, first Viscount Hood
1 Holles, Thomas Pelham-, duke of Newcastle upon Tyne and first duke of Newcastle under Lyme
1 Hobson, William
1 Hill, Rowland, first Viscount Hill
1 Herbert, Henry, tenth earl of Pembroke and seventh earl of Montgomery
1 Henry, Prince, duke of Gloucester
1 Henry VIII
1 Henry V
1 Henry II
1 Heathcoat, John
1 Hay [née Percy], Lucy, countess of Carlisle
1 Hawkins, Sir John
1 Hatton, Sir Christopher
1 Hastings, George, first earl of Huntingdon
1 Harvey, Sir Eliab
1 Harold II [Harold Godwineson]
1 Harley [née Holles], Henrietta Cavendish, countess of Oxford and Mortimer
1 Hardy, Sir Thomas Masterman, baronet
1 Hamilton, Sir Charles, second baronet
1 Hales, Sir Robert
1 Hacker, Francis
1 Gytha
1 Gyrth, earl of East Anglia
1 Guildford, Sir Richard
1 Guildford, Sir Henry
1 Grimbald [St Grimbald]
1 Grey, Thomas, second marquess of Dorset
1 Grey, Leonard [known as Lord Leonard Grey], Viscount Graney
1 Godolphin, Francis, second earl of Godolphin
1 Gilbert, Sir Humphrey
1 Gilbert of Clare, Earl of Gloucester and Hertford
1 George IV
1 George III
1 George II
1 Frederick William III
1 Francis I
1 Fox [Foxe], Richard
1 Forster, William Edward
1 Fisher, William
1 Evelyn, John
1 Elizabeth, Princess [Elizabeth Stuart]
1 Elizabeth [née Elizabeth Woodville]
1 Elizabeth [Elizabeth of York]
1 Elizabeth I
1 Eleanor [Eleanor of Provence]
1 Eleanor [Eleanor of Castile]
1 Eleanor [Eleanor of Aquitaine], suo jure duchess of Aquitaine
1 Edward [Edward of Woodstock; known as the Black Prince], prince of Wales and of Aquitaine
1 Edward IV
1 Edward III
1 Edward II [Edward of Caernarfon]
1 Edward I
1 Edmund of Almain, second earl of Cornwall
1 Edmund [called Edmund Crouchback]
1 Edmund [Edmund of Langley], first duke of York
1 Edmund II [known as Edmund Ironside]
1 Edgar Ætheling
1 Ealhswith
1 Ealdred [Aldred]
1 Dudley, Robert, earl of Leicester
1 Droxford [Drokensford], John
1 Drake, Sir Francis
1 Donkin, Sir Rufane Shaw
1 Docwra, Sir Thomas
1 Devereux, Robert, second earl of Essex
1 David II
1 Darcy, Thomas, Baron Darcy of Darcy
1 Danvers, Henry, earl of Danby
1 Dale, Sir Thomas
1 Dacre, Thomas, second Baron Dacre of Gilsland
1 Curtis, Sir Roger, first baronet
1 Cromwell, Oliver
1 Coventry [née Gunning], Maria, countess of Coventry
1 Cook, James
1 Coffin, Sir Isaac, baronet
1 Clifton, Richard
1 Clare, Elizabeth de [Elizabeth de Burgh; known as lady of Clare]
1 Chaucer, Geoffrey
1 Charles Lewis [Karl Ludwig]
1 Charles II
1 Cecil [née Brydges; other married name Smith], Frances, countess of Exeter
1 Cavendish, William, first earl of Devonshire
1 Cavendish, Henry, second duke of Newcastle upon Tyne
1 Cavendish, Henry
1 Cavendish, George
1 Cavendish [née Lucas], Margaret, duchess of Newcastle upon Tyne
1 Catesby, William
1 Catesby, Sir John
1 Cassivellaunus
1 Campbell [née Gunning], Elizabeth, duchess of Argyll and suo jure Baroness Hamilton of Hameldon [other married name Elizabeth Hamilton, duchess of Hamilton and Brandon]
1 Caldwell, Sir Benjamin
1 Caesar [Gaius Julius Caesar]
1 Cabot, Sebastian
1 Cabot, John [Zuan Caboto]
1 Byron, John, first Baron Byron
1 Byron, George Gordon Noel, sixth Baron Byron
1 Burgh, Richard de, second earl of Ulster [called Red Earl]
1 Bryan, Sir Thomas
1 Brittany, John of, earl of Richmond
1 Brandon, Sir Thomas
1 Brandon, Charles, first duke of Suffolk
1 Bradford, William
1 Brackenbury, Sir Robert
1 Bourchier, John, second Baron Berners
1 Boudicca [Boadicea]
1 Boscawen, Edward
1 Bonington, Richard Parkes
1 Blount, Sir James
1 Bligh, Sir Richard Rodney
1 Blackwood, Sir Henry, first baronet
1 Beresford, William Carr, Viscount Beresford
1 Bentinck, William Henry Cavendish Cavendish-, third duke of Portland
1 Bentinck, Margaret Cavendish [née Lady Margaret Cavendish Harley], duchess of Portland
1 Belasyse [Bellasis], John, first Baron Belasyse of Worlaby
1 Becket, Thomas [St Thomas of Canterbury, Thomas of London]
1 Beaufort, Margaret [known as Lady Margaret Beaufort], countess of Richmond and Derby
1 Beauchamp, Thomas, twelfth earl of Warwick
1 Bayning, Paul
1 Barowe [Barrow], Thomas
1 Banks, Sir Joseph, baronet
1 Ball, John
1 Ashton, Sir Ralph
1 Arthur, prince of Wales
1 Arkwright, Sir Richard
1 Anson, George, Baron Anson
1 Anne [Anna, Anne of Denmark]
1 Alfred [Ælfred]
1 Alexander I

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