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

Courtesy of St. Albans Museums.

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St Catherine’s School Centenary Pageant: A Vivid Tapestry of 2000 Years of Women in History
St Catherine’s is a fee-paying school in Surrey with approximately 880 pupils, of which 170 board.1 The pageant was organised by David Clarke, who was a prominent pageant master in Surrey (see Shal...
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...
Norfolk Federation of Women’s Institutes Pageant
Women’s Institute Pageants were highly popular during the 1920s and early 1930s, with the WI’s ‘county’ pageants being particularly successful. Other County Women’s Institute pageants were held at ...
A Pageant of Monarchy
This was one of the many pageants in Surrey produced by David Clarke, who had worked with Christopher Ede on the Guildford pageant of 1957, and had himself produced the 1968 Guildford pageant. Like...

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Historical Figure: Pocahontas [Matoaka, Amonute; Married Name Rebecca Rolfe]

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1 Sydenham, London, England
1 Norwich, Norfolk, England
1 Guildford, Surrey, England
1 Bramley, Surrey, England

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2 Clarke, David
1 Smith, L. Lamport, MA
1 Lascelles, Frank

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1 Wylie, J.H.
1 Willson, Beckles
1 Wheatley, H.B.
1 Tuner, G.J.
1 Smith, S. Armitage
1 Smith, L. Lamport, MA
1 Sharp, Cecil J.
1 Rose, Dr J. Holland
1 Pollard, A.W.
1 Oman, Charles
1 Markoe, F.H.
1 Major, Albany F.
1 Magnussen, Mrs Sigridr E.
1 Lomas, Sophie C.
1 Leadam, I.S.
1 Laughton, J. G. Carr
1 Hendley, Col. T.H.
1 Hall, Hubert
1 Gomme, Laurence
1 Gomme, Allan
1 Gomme, Alice Bertha
1 Gairdner, James
1 Fox, Frank
1 Egerton, Professor
1 Donne, T.E.
1 Coulton, G.G.
1 Corbett, Julian S.
1 Colvin, Ian S.
1 Collingwood, W.G.

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1 Wood, Haydn
1 Williams, Ralph Vaughan
1 Tapp, Frank
1 Rogan, Lieut. Dr Mackenzie
1 Possiter, Philip
1 Pilkington, F.
1 Macpherson, Charles
1 Mackenzie, Alexander
1 MacEwen, J.B.
1 Holst, Gustav
1 Handel, George Frideric
1 Gibbons, Orlando
1 German, Edward
1 Gardiner, Balfour
1 Forsyth, Cecil
1 Fletcher, Percy
1 Dowland, John
1 Corder, Paul
1 Corder, Frederick
1 Byrd, William
1 Bridge, Frank
1 Bell, W.H.
1 Bath, Hubert
1 Austin, Frederic
1 Allen, A.
1 Alexander, A.

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 Historical Figure

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4 Pocahontas [Matoaka, Amonute; married name Rebecca Rolfe]
3 Elizabeth I
3 Drake, Sir Francis
2 Æthelflæd [Ethelfleda]
2 William I [known as William the Conqueror]
2 Victoria
2 Richard III
2 James VI and I
2 Hood, Robin
2 Henry VIII
2 Henry V
2 George IV
2 Edward III
2 Dudley, Robert, earl of Leicester
2 Charles II
2 Charles I
2 Boudicca [Boadicea]
1 Óláf [Óláfr] Tryggvason
1 Æthelred II [Ethelred; known as Ethelred the Unready]
1 Ælfwig
1 arausius [Marcus Aurelius Mausaeus Carausius]
1 Wyatt, Sir Henry
1 Wulfstan
1 Wu Chao [Wu Zetian; Wu Hao]
1 Wren, Sir Christopher
1 Wolsey, Thomas
1 Winter, Sir William
1 Winslow, Edward
1 Williams, Sir Roger
1 William Augustus, Prince, duke of Cumberland
1 Whittington, Richard [Dick]
1 Whitshed, Sir James Hawkins, first baronet
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 Urswick, Christopher
1 Tyler, Walter [Wat]
1 Tunstal [Tunstall], Cuthbert
1 Tuke, Sir Brian
1 Tudor, Jasper [Jasper of Hatfield], duke of Bedford
1 Tuck, Friar
1 Tomlinson [Thomlinson], Matthew, appointed Lord Tomlinson under the protectorate
1 Tilley, Vesta [real name Matilda Alice Powles; married name Matilda Alice de Frece, Lady de Frece]
1 Thorkell the Tall [Þorkill inn Hávi], earl of East Anglia
1 The Earl of Warwick
1 The Earl of Oxford
1 Terry, Dame Ellen Alice
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 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 Rædwald [Redwald]
1 Russell [née Harington], Lucy, countess of Bedford
1 Rolfe, John entrepreneur
1 Roe, Sir Thomas
1 Robert, count of Mortain
1 Richard de Burgh, Earl of Ulster
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 Pitt, William, first earl of Chatham [known as Pitt the elder]
1 Percy, Henry, fourth earl of Northumberland
1 Pepys, Samuel
1 Parker, Sir Peter, first baronet
1 Oswiu [Oswy]
1 Orde, Sir John, first baronet
1 Odo, earl of Kent
1 Nugent, Sir Charles Edmund
1 Norris [Norreys], Sir John
1 Nightingale, Florence
1 Nias, Sir Joseph
1 Nelson, Horatio, Viscount Nelson
1 Nanfan, Sir Richard
1 Morton, John
1 Moorsom, Sir Robert
1 Montagu, William [William de Montacute], second earl of Salisbury
1 Middleton, Sir Henry
1 Mary, princess royal
1 Mary [Princess Mary of Teck]
1 Mark Anthony [Marcus Antonius]
1 Margaret [Margaret Tudor]
1 Margaret Paston
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 Louis XV [Louis the Beloved, king of France]
1 Longland, John
1 Lloyd, Marie [real name Matilda Alice Victoria Wood]
1 Lionel [Lionel of Antwerp], duke of Clarence
1 Ligonier, Edward [Francis Edward], Earl Ligonier of Clonmell
1 Leofwine, earl
1 Leofric
1 Langton, John
1 Laforey, Sir Francis
1 Lacy, Henry de, fifth earl of Lincoln
1 Kite, John
1 Kingsley, Mary Henrietta
1 Kett, Robert
1 Katherine [Catalina, Catherine, Katherine of Aragon]
1 Juxon, William
1 John the Old Saxon
1 John [John of Gaunt], duke of Aquitaine and duke of Lancaster, styled king of Castile and León
1 John
1 Joan, suo jure countess of Kent, and princess of Wales and of Aquitaine [called the Fair Maid of Kent]
1 Joan of Arc [Jeanne d’Arc]
1 Joan [Joan of Acre], countess of Hertford and Gloucester
1 Jermyn [Germain], Henry, earl of St Albans
1 Jeanne Antoinette Poisson, Marquise de Pompadour [Madame de Pompadour]
1 James II and VII
1 Jahangir
1 Héloïse
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, 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 Hild [St Hild, Hilda]
1 Herbert, Henry, tenth earl of Pembroke and seventh earl of Montgomery
1 Henry, Prince, duke of Gloucester
1 Henry II
1 Henrietta Maria [Princess Henrietta Maria of France]
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 Hardy, Sir Thomas Masterman, baronet
1 Hamilton, Sir Charles, second baronet
1 Hales, Sir Robert
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 Gilbert, Sir Humphrey
1 Gilbert of Clare, Earl of Gloucester and Hertford
1 George VI
1 George V
1 George III
1 George II
1 Frederick William III
1 Francis I
1 Fox [Foxe], Richard
1 Fisher, William
1 Evelyn, John
1 Elizabeth, Princess [Elizabeth Stuart]
1 Elizabeth [Elizabeth of York]
1 Elizabeth II [still alive]
1 Elizabeth I England and Ireland
1 Eleanor [Eleanor of Provence]
1 Eleanor [Eleanor of Castile]
1 Eleanor [Eleanor of Aquitaine], suo jure duchess of Aquitaine and queen of England, consort of Henry II
1 Eleanor [Eleanor of Aquitaine], suo jure duchess of Aquitaine
1 Edward [St Edward; known as Edward the Confessor]
1 Edward [Edward of Woodstock; known as the Black Prince], prince of Wales and of Aquitaine
1 Edward VII
1 Edward IV and lord of Ireland
1 Edward II [Edward of Caernarfon]
1 Edward I
1 Edmund of Almain, second earl of Cornwall
1 Edmund [called Edmund Crouchback]
1 Edmund [St Edmund] the East Angles
1 Edmund [Edmund of Langley], first duke of York
1 Edmund II [known as Edmund Ironside]
1 Edgar Ætheling
1 Edgar [called Edgar Pacificus]
1 Ealhswith
1 Ealdred [Aldred]
1 Dudley [née Robsart], Amy, Lady Dudley
1 Droxford [Drokensford], John
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 Cleopatra [Cleopatra VII Philopater]
1 Clare, Elizabeth de [Elizabeth de Burgh; known as lady of Clare]
1 Chaucer, Geoffrey
1 Charles Lewis [Karl Ludwig]
1 Cecil [née Brydges; other married name Smith], Frances, countess of Exeter
1 Cavendish, William, first duke of Newcastle upon Tyne
1 Cavendish, Louise Frederica Augusta, duchess of Devonshire [née Countess Louise Friederike Auguste von Alten; other married name Louise Frederica Augusta Montagu, duchess of Manchester]
1 Catesby, William
1 Catesby, Sir John
1 Cassivellaunus
1 Carausius [Marcus Aurelius Mausaeus Carausius]
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 Burgh, Richard de, second earl of Ulster [called Red Earl]
1 Bryan, Sir Thomas
1 Brontë, Emily Jane [pseud. Ellis Bell]
1 Brontë, Anne [pseud. Acton Bell]
1 Brontë [married name Nicholls], Charlotte [pseud. Currer Bell]
1 Brittany, John of, earl of Richmond
1 Brewster, William
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] of the Iceni [also known as Boudica]
1 Boscawen, Edward
1 Blount, Sir James
1 Bligh, Sir Richard Rodney
1 Blackwood, Sir Henry, first baronet
1 Bernhardt, Sarah Henriette Rosine
1 Beresford, William Carr, Viscount Beresford
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 Astley, Jacob, first Baron Astley of Reading
1 Ashton, Sir Ralph
1 Arthur, prince of Wales
1 Arthur
1 Anson, George, Baron Anson
1 Anne [Anne Boleyn] of England, second consort of Henry VIII
1 Anne [Anna, Anne of Denmark]
1 Alfred [Ælfred]
1 Alexander I
1 Abelard, Peter

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