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

Courtesy of St. Albans Museums.

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Chester Historical Pageant
In the foreword to the Official Souvenir Book of the pageant, the Master of the Pageant, George Hawtrey, claimed that: ‘Of all the cities in England there is none that binds the life of to-day so c...
The Pickering Pageant (or Historical Play)
Pageants were very popular in the North Riding of Yorkshire, as in other parts of the country, before the First World War. Thirsk staged a ‘historical play’ in 1907; York in 1909; and Scarborough ...

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 Place

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1 Pickering, Yorkshire, North Riding, England
1 Chester, Cheshire, England

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2 town

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 Pageant Master

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1 Hudson, Gilbert
1 Hawtrey, George P.

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 Author

Names of script-writers and other credited authors

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1 Whitehead, James D.
1 Wells, M.E.U.
1 Waring, George
1 Spurling, Claribel
1 Scott, Walter
1 Morris, Rupert
1 Milton, John
1 Manners, Mary E.
1 Macdonald, S.F.
1 Loy, Eva E.
1 Lovell, A.E.
1 Kitching, Mrs R.
1 Jones, David E.
1 Hudson, Gilbert
1 Hawtrey, George P.
1 Goldsbrough, Albert
1 Cooper, Wilhelmina
1 Clay, Beatrice

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

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1 Sullivan, Arthur
1 Smart, Henry
1 Lawes, William
1 Lawes, Henry
1 Jones, David E.
1 Hann, Lewis
1 German, Edward
1 Flemming, F.
1 Bridge, Dr J.C.
1 Bateson, Thomas

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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 Richard II
2 Julius Agricola, Gnaeus [known as Agricola]
1 Æthelred II [Ethelred; known as Ethelred the Unready]
1 Ælfthryth
1 Thomas of Lancaster, second earl of Lancaster, second earl of Leicester, and earl of Lincoln
1 St Christopher
1 St Catherine of Alexandria
1 Percy, Henry, first earl of Northumberland
1 Oswald [St Oswald]
1 Matilda [Edith, Mold, Matilda of Scotland]
1 Leland, John
1 King James I
1 Kenneth II [Cináed mac Maíl Choluim]
1 John [John of Gaunt], duke of Aquitaine and duke of Lancaster, styled king of Castile and León
1 John
1 James VI and I
1 Isabella [Isabella of France]
1 Henry of Lancaster, third earl of Lancaster and third earl of Leicester
1 Henry of Lancaster [Henry of Grosmont], first duke of Lancaster
1 Henry IV [known as Henry Bolingbroke]
1 Henry II
1 Henry I
1 Grosvenor, Sir Richard, first baronet
1 Gerard
1 Gerald of Wales [Giraldus Cambrensis, Gerald de Barry]
1 George [St George]
1 Eleanor [Eleanor of Castile]
1 Edward [St Edward; called Edward the Martyr]
1 Edward II [Edward of Caernarfon]
1 Edward I
1 Edmund [called Edmund Crouchback]
1 Edmund [St Edmund]
1 Edgar [called Edgar Pacificus]
1 Dunstan [St Dunstan]
1 Despenser, Hugh, the younger, first Lord Despenser
1 Despenser, Hugh, the elder, earl of Winchester
1 Clifford, Rosamund [called Fair Rosamund]
1 Charles I
1 Cedd [St Cedd]
1 Byron, John, first Baron Byron
1 Becket, Thomas [St Thomas of Canterbury, Thomas of London]
1 Baldwin [Baldwin of Forde]
1 Baldock, Robert
1 Avranches, Hugh d', first earl of Chester
1 Anselm [St Anselm]
1 Anne [Anna, Anne of Denmark]

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