Tony Kroesig Geoffrey Streatfield Tony Kroesig is in part modeled on Mitford's husband, Peter Rodd. Tony captures Linda Radlett's imagination at her first debutante ball but the rest of their life together is far from romantic, prompting Linda to leave her husband for the passionate, if impoverished Communist, Christian. Geoffrey Streatfield is a British television and stage actor who recently appeared in Mountain Language at the Harold Pinter Festival at Lincoln Center in New York City. In Mitford's words: Tony Kroesig ...Tony, in those days, to unsophisticated country girls like us, seemed a glorious and glamorous creature. When we first saw him, at Linda's and my coming out ball, he was in his last year at Oxford, a member of Bullingdon, a splendid young man with a Rolls-Royce, plenty of beautiful horses, exquisite clothes, and large luxurious rooms where he entertained on a lavish scale. In person, he was tall and fair, on the heavy side, but with a well-proportioned figure; he had already a faint touch of pomposity, a thing which Linda had never come across before, and which she found not unattractive. She took him, in short, at his own valuation. The Pursuit of Love, Chapter 7