Peter Rodd

Peter Rodd

Lieutenant-Colonel The Honourable Peter Murray Rennell Rodd (16 April 1904 – 1968) was a younger son of Rennell Rodd, 1st Baron Rennell.

He was educated at Wellington College and Balliol College, Oxford. On 4 December 1933 he was married to the Hon. Nancy Mitford, one of the noted Mitford sisters. They later separated, but were not divorced until 1958.

During the Second World War he served with the Welsh Guards. He is now chiefly remembered as Mitford's husband and as the model (along with Basil Murray) for the disreputable but brilliant Basil Seal in Evelyn Waugh's novels "Black Mischief" and "Put Out More Flags".


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