Pauline Tennant

• Name — Pauline Tennant • Birth Name — Pauline Laetitia Tennant • Born — 6 February 1927 • Birthplace — London, England • Died — 6 December 2008 • Occupation — * Actress • poet • socialite • Years Active — 1943–1949 • Title — Lady Rumbold • Children — Andrew Graham • Mother — Hermione Baddeley • Father — Hon. David Tennant • Relatives — * Edward Tennant (paternal uncle) • Stephen Tennant (paternal uncle) • Angela Baddeley (maternal aunt) • Emma Tennant (first cousin) • Stella Tennant (first cousin-once-removed)

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).

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). 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". During her younger years she was often seen at the bar of the prestigious Ritz, London.