Pauline Tennant


Pauline Laetitia Tennant, later Pauline Graham, Pauline Rumbold and Lady Rumbold was an English actress, poet and socialite.

Family

Born into an aristocratic family, she was the daughter of David Pax Tennant and Hermione Baddeley. She was married three times, to Julian Pitt-Rivers ; Euan Douglas Graham, grandson of the fifth Duke of Montrose ; and then Sir Anthony Rumbold.

Stage and screen

Tennant played on the West End stage in Ben Travers' She Followed Me About and alongside Fay Compton in No Medals. She also appeared in two films: Great Day and The Queen of Spades.
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.