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Pauline Tennant

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Pauline Tennant
Lady
Pauline Tennant
Born
Pauline Laetitia Tennant

(1927-02-06)6 February 1927
London, England
Died6 December 2008(2008-12-06) (aged 81)
Occupations
  • Actress
  • poet
  • socialite
Years active1943–1949
TitleLady Rumbold
Spouses
(m. 1946; div. 1953)
Euan Douglas Graham
(m. 1954; div. 1970)
(m. 1974; died 1983)
ChildrenAndrew Graham
Parents
Relatives

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.

Family

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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

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Tennant played on the West End stage in Ben Travers' She Follows Me About (1943) and alongside Fay Compton in No Medals (1947). She also appeared in two films: Great Day (1945) 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

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

References

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  1. ^ a b 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. Archived from the original on 25 May 2022. Retrieved 22 June 2015.
  4. ^ Montgomery-Massingberd & Watkin 1980, pp. 115–16.
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