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

Courtesy of St. Albans Museums.

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Kingston Church Pageant
The author of the Kingston Pageant, W.E. St Lawrence Finny, went even further than the great Pageant Master, Louis Napoleon Parker, who famously avoided the Civil War so as not to offend political ...
Shropshire Historical Pageant
The Shropshire Pageant, held in the same season as the Runnymede Pageant, managed to combine a grandeur and spectacle of performance with a distinctive local feel, eschewing the more generic visits...

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 Place

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1 Ludlow, Shropshire, England
1 Kingston Upon Thames, Surrey, England

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 Pageant Type

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

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1 london
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1 church

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 Pageant Master

Person/s with primary responsibility for execution of the pageant

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1 Finny, W.E. St Lawrence
1 Baring, Edward

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 Author

Names of script-writers and other credited authors

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1 Seaman, Sir Owen
1 Milton, John
1 Finny, W.E. St Lawrence
1 Drinkwater, John
1 Collard, Avalon

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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 Sullivan, Arthur
1 Saville, John
1 Purcell, Henry
1 Parry, Hubert
1 Lawes, William
1 Lawes, Henry
1 Huntley, G.F.
1 Holst, Gustav
1 Hilton, John
1 German, Edward
1 Elgar, Edward
1 Dykes, John Bacchus
1 Dussek, Ronald
1 Collard, Avalon
1 Bury, Frank
1 Bennel, John
1 Alderson, Percy

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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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2 Matilda [Matilda of Flanders]
2 Henry I
1 Æthelwulf
1 Ælfgifu [Ælfgifu of Northampton]
1 Wolsey, Thomas
1 William II [known as William Rufus]
1 William I [known as William the Conqueror]
1 Sidney, Sir Philip
1 Sidney, Sir Henry
1 Ostorius Scapula, Publius
1 Odo, earl of Kent
1 Mildburg [St Mildburg, Milburg, Milburga, Milburgh]
1 Matilda [Edith, Mold, Matilda of Scotland]
1 Leofric, earl of Mercia
1 Katherine [Catalina, Catherine, Katherine of Aragon]
1 John
1 Isabella [Isabella of France]
1 Henry VIII
1 Harold II [Harold Godwineson]
1 Greville, Fulke, first Baron Brooke of Beauchamps Court
1 Godgifu [Godiva]
1 Giffard, William
1 Eleanor [Eleanor of Castile]
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 V
1 Edward I
1 Edith [Eadgyth]
1 Ecgberht [Egbert]
1 Eadwig [Edwy]
1 Eadric [Edric] the Wild [Eadric Cild]
1 Dunstan
1 Dafydd ap Gruffudd
1 Cnut [Canute]
1 Cartimandua [Claudia Cartimandua, Julia Cartimandua]
1 Caratacus [Caractacus]
1 Ashton, Thomas
1 Alfred [Ælfred]
1 Alcock, John

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