Temperance Makepeace

a version of Wicked Intentions cover art (2010), implying Temperance Makepeace Dews' likeness ca. Feb. 1737

## Family Relations

### Parents and Siblings

* xxx Makepeace (father)
* xxx Makepeace (mother)
* Verity Brown (sister)
* Concord Makepeace (brother)
* Asa Makepeace (brother)
* Winter Makepeace (brother)
* Silence Hollingbrook (sister)

### Spouse(s)

* Benjamin Dews (m. ~1725, deceased)
* Lazarus Huntington, Lord Caire (m. 1737)

## Affiliation(s)

### Occupation

Co-Director, Home for Unfortunate Infants and Foundling Children

## Appearances

### Appears in

* *Wicked Intentions*
* *Scandalous Desires*
* *Sweetest Scoundrel*

### Debut

*Wicked Intentions*

**Temperance Makepeace Dews Huntington**, with her brother, runs the Home for Unfortunate Infants and Foundling Children that their late father established in the impoverished London district of St. Giles. Her familiarity with the St. Giles slum brings her to the attention of Lazarus Huntington, Baron Caire, who seeks the murderer of his mistress. Temperance agrees to help him in his investigation, in return for his introduction to possible benefactors for the foundling home.

## Events of the Novels

### *Wicked Intentions*

See also: Wicked Intentions
Main article: Temperance Makepeace/Wicked Intentions
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### *Scandalous Desires*

See also: Scandalous Desires
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### *Sweetest Scoundrel*

See also: Scandalous Desires
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## Physical Appearance

Temperance's defining physical features include...

## Relationships

### Makepeace Family

Main article: Winter Makepeace
Running the home...

Other siblings...

### Lazarus Huntington

Main article: Lazarus Huntington
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## Name

* **Temperance** — From the English word meaning "moderation" or "restraint". One of various virtue names adopted in the 17th century by adherents of the strain of English Protestantism known as Puritans.
* **Makepeace** — (English) from Middle English make (Old English macian) + peis pes ‘make peace’; possibly indicating a professional arbitrator or person known for skills at patching up quarrels. Related to the Latin-derived English surname 'Pace' with origins in medieval Latin/Italian gender-neutral personal names connected to peace/concord/amity and/or silence/quiescence/peace.
* **Dews** — (English with possible Old French and/or Anglo-Norman French origins) shortened form of Dewhurst. variant of Dew with post-medieval excrescent -s; variant of Devis, a habitational name from Devizes in Wiltshire Old French devise ‘(place on) the boundaries’; variant of Dewis, perhaps a habitational name from Ewyas Harold or Ewyas Lacy in Herefordshire, both from a Welsh name meaning ‘sheep district’ with Anglo-Norman French fused preposition de.
* **Huntington** — (English, northern) habitational name from various places called 'Huntington', most named with Old English *huntena* the genitive plural form of *hunta* ‘hunter huntsman’ + *dūn* ‘hill’ or *tūn* ‘farmstead estate’. Some may reference Old English *hunting* ‘hunting’ as the initial element, or derive from the Old English personal name *Hunta*/(genitive *Huntan*) with the connective *-ing-* + *tūn*, with underlying meanings as above.

## Rank

* **Merchant/Working Classes** —
* **Brewing Trade(s)** —
* **Wives of Barons** —

1. ↑ Concord Resilience Makepeace, per wife Rose, *Sweetest Scoundrel*, chapter 9. The use of middle names in the early part of the eighteenth century was unusual — "only about 10% of the British population had a middle name in 1800" Now You Know: Why Do We Have Middle Names? – Accessed 3 January 2024
2. ↑ Behind the Name: Temperance – Accessed 3 November 2023
3. ↑ Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd Edition ©2022, Oxford University Press, via Ancestry.com — accessed 3 November 2023
4. ↑ Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd Edition ©2022, Oxford University Press, via Ancestry.com — accessed 6 September 2023
5. ↑ Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd Edition ©2022, Oxford University Press, via Ancestry.com — accessed 3 November 2023