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Pauline Tennant

Pauline Tennant

British actress, poet and socialite

Pauline Laetitia, Lady Rumbold (born Tennant, formerly Pitt-Rivers and Graham; 6 February 1927 – 6 December 2008)[1] was a British actress, poet and socialite.

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Family

Born into an aristocratic family, she was the daughter of Hon. David Tennant and Hermione Baddeley. She was married three times, to Julian Pitt-Rivers (1946–1953); Euan Douglas Graham, grandson of the 5th Duke of Montrose (1954–1970); and Sir Anthony Rumbold, 10th Baronet (from 1974 until his death in 1983).[1]

Stage and screen

Tennant played on the West End stage in Ben Travers' She Followed Me About (1943) and alongside Fay Compton in No Medals (1947). 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]

Filmography

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Bibliography

  • Montgomery-Massingberd, Hugh; Watkin, David (1980). The London Ritz: a social and architectural history. Aurum. ISBN 978-0-906053-01-0.

References

  1. [1]
    Goldman, Lawrence (2013). Oxford Dictionary of National Biography 2005–2008. Oxford: OUP Oxford. p. 1101. ISBN 978-0199-67154-0.
  2. [2]
    "Obituaries: Lady Rumbold". telegraph.co.uk. The Telegraph. 17 December 2008. Retrieved 27 August 2016.
  3. [3]
    "Pauline, Lady Rumbold: Actress and poet born into bohemian high society". The Independent. Archived from the original on 25 May 2022. Retrieved 22 June 2015.
  4. [4]
    Montgomery-Massingberd & Watkin 1980, pp. 115–16.
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