Pauline Tennant
{{Short description|British actress, poet and socialite (1927–2008)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=November 2015}}
{{Use British English|date=November 2015}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Pauline Tennant
| image = Actress_&_poet_Pauline_Tennant.jpg
| caption = Pauline Tennant
| alt = Lady
| birth_name = Pauline Laetitia Tennant
| other_names =
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1927|2|6|df=yes}}
| birth_place = London, England
| death_date = {{Death date and age|2008|12|6|1927|2|6|df=yes}}
| death_place =
| occupation = {{hlist|Actress|poet|socialite}}
| years_active = 1943–1949
| title = Lady Rumbold
| spouse = {{Plainlist|
- {{marriage|Julian Pitt-Rivers|1946|1953|end=div}}
- {{marriage|Euan Douglas Graham|1954|1970|end=div}}
- {{marriage|Sir Anthony Rumbold, 10th Baronet|1974|1983|end=d}}
}}
| children = Andrew Graham
| mother = Hermione Baddeley
| father = Hon. David Tennant
| relatives = {{plainlist|
- 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){{cite book |last=Goldman |first=Lawrence |year=2013 |title=Oxford Dictionary of National Biography 2005–2008 |page=1101 |location=Oxford |publisher=OUP Oxford |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nbGcAQAAQBAJ&q=actress%2Fpoet+Pauline+Tennant+obituary&pg=PA1101
|isbn= 978-0199-67154-0}} 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).{{cite web |title=Obituaries: Lady Rumbold |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/3815125/Lady-Rumbold.html |publisher=The Telegraph |website=telegraph.co.uk |date= 17 December 2008 |access-date=27 August 2016}}
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".{{cite news |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/pauline-lady-rumbold-actress-and-poet-born-into-bohemian-high-society-1064500.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220525/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/pauline-lady-rumbold-actress-and-poet-born-into-bohemian-high-society-1064500.html |archive-date=25 May 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |title=Pauline, Lady Rumbold: Actress and poet born into bohemian high society |newspaper=The Independent |access-date=22 June 2015}} During her younger years she was often seen at the bar of the prestigious Ritz, London.{{sfn |Montgomery-Massingberd |Watkin |1980 |pp=115–16}}
Bibliography
- {{cite book |last1=Montgomery-Massingberd |first1=Hugh |last2=Watkin |first2=David |title=The London Ritz: a social and architectural history |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_xBUAAAAMAAJ |year=1980 |publisher=Aurum |isbn=978-0-906053-01-0 }}
References
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External links
- {{IMDb name|id=0855059}}
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Category:20th-century English poets
Category:20th-century English women writers
Category:English film actresses
Category:English stage actresses
Category:20th-century English actresses