Pauline Tennant

Pauline Laetitia Tennant, later Pauline Graham, Pauline Rumbold and Lady Rumbold (6 February 1927 – 6 December 2008)[1] was an English actress, poet and socialite.

Pauline Tennant
Pauline Tennant
Born
Pauline Laetitia Tennant

(1927-02-06)6 February 1927
London, United Kingdom
Died6 December 2008(2008-12-06) (aged 81)
NationalityBritish
Other namesPauline Graham
Pauline Rumbold
Lady Rumbold
OccupationActress, Poet and Socialite
Years active1943-1949
Spouse(s)Julian Pitt-Rivers (1946-1953)
Euan Douglas Graham (1954-1970)
Sir Anthony Rumbold (1974-1983)
ChildrenAndrew Graham
Parent(s)David Pax Tennant
Hermione Baddeley
RelativesAngela Baddeley (aunt)
David Tennant (Brother)

Family

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); Euan Douglas Graham, grandson of the fifth Duke of Montrose (from 1954); and then Sir Anthony Rumbold (1974–83).[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]

Bibliography
  • Montgomery-Massingberd, Hugh; Watkin, David (1980). The London Ritz: a social and architectural history. Aurum. ISBN 978-0-906053-01-0.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)

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