Pauline Tennant
Pauline Laetitia Tennant, later Pauline Graham, Pauline Rumbold or Lady Rumbold (6 February 1927 – 6 December 2008)[1] was an English actress, poet and socialite. Born into an aristocratic family, she was the daughter of David Pax Tennant and Hermione Baddeley. She was married three times: to Julian Pitt-Rivers (1946–53), to Euan Douglas Graham, grandson of the fifth Duke of Montrose (1954-?), and then to Sir Anthony Rumbold (1974–83).[1]
Tennant played on the West End stage in Ben Travers' She Followed Me About (1943) and alongside Fay Compton in No Medals. She also appeared in two films: Great Day (1945, screen debut) and The Queen of Spades (1949).[2]
In an obituary for The Independent, the writer Philip Hoare described Tennant as "a true bohemian aristocrat – a tension of qualities that were literally in her genes."[3] During her younger years she was often seen at the bar of the prestigious Ritz, London.[4]
Bibliography
- Montgomery-Massingberd, Hugh; Watkin, David (1980). The London Ritz: a social and architectural history. Aurum. ISBN 978-0-906053-01-0.
References
- 1 2 Goldman, Lawrence (2013). Oxford Dictionary of National Biography 2005-2008. Google Books. Oxford: OUP Oxford. p. 1101. ISBN 978-0199-67154-0.
- ↑ "Obituaries: Lady Rumbold". telegraph.co.uk. The Telegraph. 17 December 2008. Retrieved 27 August 2016.
- ↑ "Pauline, Lady Rumbold: Actress and poet born into bohemian high society". The Independent. Retrieved 22 June 2015.
- ↑ Montgomery-Massingberd & Watkin 1980, pp. 115–16.