Peter Murray Rennell Rodd

He is mostly remembered as novelist Nancy 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.

Lieutenant-Colonel Peter Murray Rennell Rodd was a younger son of Lilias Georgina Guthrie and 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.

Source: Wikipedia