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

Family

Born into an aristocratic family, she was the daughter of

David Pax Tennant The Hon. David Pax Tennant (22 May 1902 – 8 April 1968) was a British aristocrat and socialite, and the founder of the Gargoyle Club in London's Soho. Early life Tennant was the third son of Edward Tennant, 1st Baron Glenconner, Edward Tenna ...

and

Hermione Baddeley Hermione Youlanda Ruby Clinton-Baddeley (13 November 1906 – 19 August 1986) was an English actress of theatre, film and television. She typically played brash, vulgar characters, often referred to as "brassy" or "blowsy".Folkart, Burt, "Noted ...

. She was married three times, to

Julian Pitt-Rivers Julian Alfred Lane Fox Pitt-Rivers (16 March 1919 – 12 August 2001) was a British social anthropologist, an ethnographer, and a professor at universities in three countries. Family background Pitt-Rivers was a great-grandson of the archaeologi ...

(1946–53); Euan Douglas Graham, grandson of the fifth Duke of Montrose (from 1954-70); and then Sir Anthony Rumbold (1974–83).

Stage and screen

Tennant played on the West End stage in

Ben Travers Ben Travers (12 November 188618 December 1980) was an English writer. His output includes more than 20 plays, 30 screenplays, 5 novels, and 3 volumes of memoirs. He is best remembered for his long-running Aldwych farce, series of farces first ...

' ''She Followed Me About'' (1943) and alongside

Fay Compton Virginia Lilian Emmeline Compton-Mackenzie, (; 18 September 1894 – 12 December 1978), known professionally as Fay Compton, was an English actress. She appeared in several films, and made many broadcasts, but was best known for her stage per ...

in ''

No Medals ''No Medals'' is a play by the British writer Esther McCracken first staged in 1944. Its West End run at the Vaudeville Theatre lasted for 740 performances between 4 October 1944 and 19 July 1946. It depicts the struggles of a middle-class Br ...

'' (1947). She also appeared in two films: '' Great Day'' (1945, screen debut) and '' The Queen of Spades'' (1949). In an obituary for ''The Independent'', the writer

Philip Hoare Philip Hoare (born Patrick Kevin Philip Moore, 1958) is an English writer, especially of history and biography. He instigated the Moby Dick Big Read project. He is Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Southampton and Leverhulme a ...

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.

Filmography

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Tennant, Pauline 1929 births 2008 deaths English women poets 20th-century English poets 20th-century English women writers English socialites English film actresses English stage actresses 20th-century English actresses 1940s in London Wives of baronets