Drawn by Silvana Bevilacqua
About[]
Mrs. Temminnick is Sophronia Angelina Temminnick's mother. Sophronia calls her Mumsy.
History[]
Mother of eight, she sends her daughter Sophronia off to a finishing school when the young girl just wouldn't behave.
Children[]
- Nigella ~ oldest, girl.
- Octavia
- Ephraim ~ eldest boy
- Gresham
- Petunia
- Sophronia
- Humphrey
- Hudibras ~ twin to Humphrey
In the books[]
Etiquette & Espionage[]
Mrs. Temminnick has Mrs. Barnaclegoose and Mademoiselle Geraldine (Monique de Pelouse in disguise) over to discuss her daughter: Sophronia Angelina Temminnick. Mrs. Temminnick sends her daughter off to Mademoiselle Geraldine's Finishing Academy for Young Ladies of Quality in hopes that Sophronia will be prepared for her sister (Petunia's) coming out.
Curtsies & Conspiraces[]
Mrs. Temminnick sends Sophronia some new dresses, pleased by her daughter's interest in expanding her wardrobe.
Waistcoats & Weaponry[]
At her son - Ephraim's - engagement party, Mrs. Temminnick catches Sophronia in the garden alone with Pillover and insists that they be engaged immediately. She has another fit that evening with Sidheag Maccon arrives with two werewolves in wolf form.
Trivia[]
- Mrs. Temminnick is completely obvlivious to the kind of education her daughter is getting while away at Finishing School.
Quotes[]
- "Her mother was more a follower of trends than a purveyor of fine taste." (Etiquette & Espionage, Lesson 1)
- "Her expression was that of a woman with multiple children who was never surprised by anything they did, up to and including arriving home from finishing school in an airdinghy." (Etiquette & Espionage, Lesson 17)
- "Poor Mumsy did not like chaos, which made it all the odder that she had eight children." (Waistcoats & Weaponry, Session 7)
- "Mrs. Temminnick was disposed to be optimistic on behalf of an earl's daughter." (Waistcoats & Weaponry, Lesson 7)
- "It was a mark of how little, if ever, Mrs. Temminnick fraternized with werewolves that she decided to categorize both as friendly dogs, rather than naked men." (Waistcoats & Weaponry, Lesson 7)