Pauline Tennant
Also recorded as Pauline Laetitia Tennant · Pauline Graham · Pauline Rumbold · Lady Rumbold
Pauline Tennant
- Born
- 1929 · London.
- Died
- 2008
- Nationality
- United Kingdom
- Occupation
- actress · poet · writer
- Languages
- English
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• Name — Pauline Tennant • Birth Name — Pauline Laetitia Tennant • Born — 1927 2 6 • Birthplace — London, England • Died — 2008 12 6 • 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) Pauline Laetitia, Lady Rumbold (born Tennant, formerly Pitt-Rivers and Graham; 6 February 1927 – 6 December 2008) was a British actress, poet and socialite.
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).
Stage and screen
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.
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- 1.Goldman, Lawrence. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography 2005–2008. OUP Oxford. 1101. 2013. 978-0199-67154-0.
- 2.The Telegraph. Obituaries: Lady Rumbold. telegraph.co.uk. 17 December 2008.
- 3.Pauline, Lady Rumbold: Actress and poet born into bohemian high society. The Independent.
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