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* [[Good Old Ways]]: He derides Sir Richard Carlisle's modernisation plans for Haxby Park, including all mod-cons and an ensuite bathroom in every bedroom, as "like living in a hotel."
* [[Happily Married]]
* [[Officer and a Gentleman]]: He served in the Boer War, prior to series 1.
* [[Papa Wolf]]: He's incredibly protective of his daughters, but Sybil in particular.
{{quote|'''Robert''' (To {{spoiler|Branson}}): If you mistreat her, I will have you ripped apart by wild dogs.}}
* [[The Patriarch]]
* [[Reasonable Authority Figure]]: Most of the time.
* [[Succession Crisis]]: He has no son of his own, meaning that his first and second cousins, James and Patrick, were to inherit the estate - until they were killed on the Titanic in the first episode. As a result, distant relation Matthew is the new heir, a development that drives much of the series' plot.
* {{spoiler|[[Your Cheating Heart]]: He strikes up a lustful dalliance with Jane Moorsum, a new maid, which leads to a few stolen kisses, but he soon breaks it off, following a [[My God, What Have I Done?]] realization.}}
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* [[The Matchmaker]]
* [[Proper Lady]]
* [[Raven Hair, Ivory Skin]]
* [[Sacred Hospitality]]
* [[Shiny Midnight Black]]: Her hair is a very deep black.
* [[Silk Hiding Steel]]
* [[Spoiled Sweet]]: Cora's father was a dry goods millionaire from Cincinnati, making her less like the NY old guard and more like the rest of the ''Buccaneers'' - American heiresses who couldn't get into the American elite, so they came over to England and France where their wealth could be, ah, appreciated.
* {{spoiler|[[Surprise Pregnancy]]: Which ends in a tragic miscarriage - see O'Brien's entry below.}}
* [[Token Minority]]: She's American, a fact that her mother-in-law and even her own daughters rarely let her forget.
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[[File:marycra_7538.gif|frame|"When you laugh with me or flirt with me, is that a duty? Are you conforming to the fitness of things?"]]
* [[Belligerent Sexual Tension]]: Between her and Mathew.
* [[Big Brother Instinct|Big Sister Instinct]]: She exhibits this to Sybil in spades, refering to her as "my darling" most of the time and sticking up for her to their parents. ''Never'' to Edith, however.
* [[Blue Blood]]
* [[Break the Haughty]]: Following the scandal over {{spoiler|the death of Kemal Pamuk....in her bed}}.
** [[Fallen Princess]]
* [[Christmas Cake]]: She's on the cusp, and this is the reason why the family wants her (in her early 20s) to be married off as quickly as possible, "before the bloom is quite gone off the rose," as the Dowager Countess puts it.
* [[Defrosting Ice Queen]]
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* [[Kissing Cousins]]: She was [[Arranged Marriage|engaged]] to Patrick Crawley, her 2nd cousin, and Matthew is her 4th cousin.
* [[Lady in Red]]
* [[Master of the Mixed Message]]: She seem to want what she can't have. If a suitor suddenly becomes available, Mary finds a reason to break it off.
* [[Prophetic Name]]: The old Hebrew translation of Mary includes "bitterness" and "rebelliousness."
* [[Raven Hair, Ivory Skin]]: Just like her mum.
* [[Rebellious Spirit]]: Mary does not crave advice.
{{quote|'''Mary:''' [derisively] Have you seen the new boy's haircuts the ladies are wearing in Paris?
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* [[Tall, Dark and Bishoujo]]
** [[Tall, Dark and Snarky]]
* [[Used to Be a Sweet Kid]]: According to Carson, who dotes on her.
* [[Volleying Insults]]: With her sister Edith, constantly.
* [[Wanting Is Better Than Having]]: Has an instinctual aversion to the most available man.
* [[Will They or Won't They?]]: With Mathew. {{spoiler|[[They Do]].}}
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* [[Blue Blood]]
* [[Clingy Jealous Girl]]: She exhibits this with Mathew.
* [[The Dog Bites Back]]: {{spoiler|Having endured Mary's taunts for most of the early part of series one, she takes revenge by writing to the Turkish Embassy to explain Mary's direct involvement in the circumstances surrounding Pamuk's death.}}
* [[Driven by Envy]]
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* [[I Just Want to Be Special]]
* [[Malicious Slander]]
* [[Middle Child Syndrome]]: She's over-looked by her parents and sandwiched between her confident, beautiful sisters.
* [[Plain Jane]]: Probably the politest way to describe Edith.
* [[Sliding Scale of Beauty]]: While not exactly ''ugly'', poor Edith isn't a patch on sexy, sultry Mary and downright adorable Sybil.
* [[Sour Prudes|Sour Prude]]: Oh yes - Especially where Mary is concerned.
* [[The Unfavourite]]: Particularly evident with this exchange:
{{quote|'''Robert''': Poor old Edith, we never seem to talk about her.
'''Cora''': I'm afraid Edith will be the one to care for us in our old age.
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* [[Gorgeous Period Dress]]
** [[Of Corset Hurts]]
* [[Hello, Nurse!]]
* [[Nice to the Waiter]]: She's ''particularly'' kind to the house-hold staff, especially Gwen, her ladies' maid.
* [[Purity Personified]]: Arguably the nicest person on the show.
* [[Raven Hair, Ivory Skin]]: Again, just like her mum.
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* [[Shiny Midnight Black]]: As noted above, her hair is a deep black.
* [[Spirited Young Lady]]: When it comes to politics, and fashion - the harem-style culottes she has tailored ''shock'' her family, and in series 2 she {{spoiler|goes so far as to--''shudder''--actually get a ''job'' as a nurse.}}
* [[Spoiled Sweet]]: She's sweet, kind and considerate.
* [[Tomboy]]: In manner, not appearance.
* [[Uptown Girl]]: For Branson.
* [[Wide-Eyed Idealist]]
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* [[Blue Blood]]
* [[British Stuffiness]]: Played with ''magnificent'' aplomb.
* [[Brutal Honesty]]
* [[Cool Old Lady]]
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* [[Gorgeous Period Dress]]
** [[Outdated Outfit]]: In the first season, her outfits are more in line with the 1900s than the 1910s, and by the time she starts wearing the high-waisted, uncorseted looks of 1912-4 in the second season, it's [[World War One]] and the other ladies are moving on to barrel skirts and proto-flapper looks.
* [[Graceful Ladies Like Purple]]: It's her signature colour - she even shares her name with a shade of purple.
* [[Grande Dame]]: She provides a definitive example.
* [[Hopeless with Tech]]: And HOW? The Countess is baffled even by a swivel chair!
* [[Jerk with a Heart of Gold]]: As seen at the village flower show, and with the [[Mama Bear|protective attitude]] she displays towards William, {{spoiler|especially with regard to arranging his repatriation to Downton after he is mortally wounded at Amiens; she even threatens [[The Vicar]] when he initially refuses to conduct William's last request to marry Daisy.}} Her kind advice to Daisy when she is {{spoiler|feeling guilty about marrying William when she did not love him as much}} is another example.
* [[The Matchmaker]]
* [[Never Mess with Granny]]: EVER.
{{quote|'''Violet''': We can't have him assassinated. ...I suppose.}}
* [[Screw Politeness, I'm a Senior!]]: "I am beyond propriety."
* [[Volleying Insults]]: She loves a verbal battle with Isobel.
==== Mathew Crawley (Dan Stevens) ====
[[File:MatthewCrawley_5517.jpg|frame]]
* [[Audience Surrogate]]: Arguably. As he experiences the particulars and peculiarities of the English aristocracy, so do we.
* [[Belligerent Sexual Tension]]: Between him and Lady Mary.
* [[Dogged Nice Guy]]: When it comes to Mary.
* [[Fee Fi Faux Pas]]: Initially.
* [[Fish Out of Water]]
* [[Heir Club for Men]]: Although only a distant cousin, he is the direct heir to the Crawley estate.
* [[Hello, Attorney!]]
* [[The Hero]]
* [[Hollywood Healing]]: Shakes off {{spoiler|his paralysis}} in the space of an episode.
* [[Kissing Cousins]]: He and Lady Mary.
* [[Rags to Royalty]]: He goes from being a Mancunian lawyer to the heir of the Earl of Grantham and his estate. Not that he's thrilled about it at first.
* [[Self-Made Man]]
* [[What the Hell, Hero?]]: His initial treatment of Moseley, which was dismissive and lacked empathy.
* [[Will They or Won't They?]]: With Mary. {{spoiler|[[They Do]].}}
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* [[Control Freak]]: Present in series 1, but by the 4th episode of series 2, her bossy attitude reaches its zenith and causes huge ructions between her and Cora.... {{spoiler|which sees her up sticks and leave for France.}}
* [[Fee Fi Faux Pas]]: Although determined not to let herself and Mathew down socially when she first meets the Crawleys, this exchange with the Dowager Countess puts her well and truly in her place:
{{quote|'''Isobel''': Well then, what should we call each other?
'''Lady Grantham''': Well, we could always start with Mrs Crawley and Lady Grantham. }}
* [[Meddling Parents|Meddling Parent]]: To Mathew, on Occasion.
* [[My Beloved Smother]]: A relatively mild example, but Mathew is often confounded by her pushiness.
* [[Nosy Neighbor]]
* [[Nurse with Good Intentions]]: She's actually a surprisingly good ''nurse'', when it comes down to it - she just seems to think she's a ''doctor'', which she's not.
* [[The Rival]]: For the Dowager Countess.
* [[Passive-Aggressive Kombat]]: She's just about the only person who will challenge the Dowager Countess.
* [[Samaritan Syndrome]]: Which the Dowager Countless [[Exploited Trope|exploits]] to boot her from the house.
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* [[Easy Amnesia]]: Or so he claims.
* [[Face Revealing Turn]]
** [[Rule of Creepy]]: His deformed face, mad staring eyes, the strange finger gesture that Lord Grantham observes him make, and the bouts of rage he exhibits are all more than a little unsettling.
* [[The Grotesque]]
* [[Line-of-Sight Name]]: According to him, he picked up the name Gordon from a bottle of gin.
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* [[Quest for Identity]]
* [[Spot the Imposter]]: Lord Grantham and Lady Mary in particular are not taken in by his claims to be Patrick ''Crawley''....
** [[Grand Theft Me]]: ....believing him to have taken on the identity of Patrick sometime after the Titanic disaster.
*** [[Leave the Plot Threads Hanging]]: So far...
* [[You Have to Believe Me]]
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* [[Principles Zealot]]
* [[Screw the Money, I Have Rules]]: When Sir Richard dangles a fat salary over his head.
* [[Undying Loyalty]]: To the Crawley family, especially Lady Mary, his favourite.
==== Mrs Elsie Hughes, the Housekeeper (Phyllis Logan) ====
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* [[The Stoic]]: She sacrifices her own personal happiness when given the opportunity of marriage to continue serving the family.
{{quote|'''William''': You're a kind woman Mrs Hughes. I don't know how this house would run without you.}}
* [[Team Mom|Team Mum]]: To the staff.
==== Mrs Beryl Patmore, the Cook (Lesley Nicol) ====
[[File:MrsPatmore_2401.jpg|frame]]
* [[Apron Matron]]: She runs the kitchen with a rod of iron.
* [[Blind Mistake]]: She's diagnosed with cateracts, which causes her to make mistakes in the kitchen....and exacerbates her temper.
* [[Fiery Redhead]]
* [[Gaydar]]: She's well aware of Thomas's preference... unlike poor Daisy.
* [[Hair-Trigger Temper]]
* [[Kick the Dog]]: She's fairly beastly to poor Daisy.
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==== John Bates, Lord Grantham's Valet (Brendan Coyle) ====
[[File:Mr__Bates_5740.jpg|frame]]
* [[Battle Butler]]: He served under Lord Grantham in the Boer War.
* [[Being Good Sucks]]: And how!
* [[Bully Hunter]]: At one point he ''slams Thomas into a wall'' in William's defence.
{{quote|'''Bates''': You listen to me, you filthy little rat: if you don’t lay off I will punch your shining teeth straight through the back of your skull.}}
* [[Cannot Spit It Out]]: For a variety of reasons, the man refuses to explain ''anything''.
* [[Can't Stay Normal]]: Attempted to correct his limp, but the prosthetic proved rather less effective than advertised.
* [[Don't You Dare Pity Me!]]: He pretty much says this word for word to Anna.
* [[Frame-Up]]: As series 2 concludes, {{spoiler|he is carted off by the police, following his estranged wife Vera's last desperate act of revenge - framing him for her murder, when she had in fact killed herself.}}
* [[Handicapped Badass]]: He walks with a pronounced limp.
* [[Honor Before Reason]]
** [[Blackmail]]: He is forced to come back to his wife when she finds out about {{spoiler|the Kemal Pamuk scandal. Yes, he's blackmailed with someone else's dirty secret.}}
* [[Manly Tears]]
* [[May-December Romance]]: He and Anna.
* [[Mysterious Past]]: Which is only revealed {{spoiler|midway through series one, where it is revealed that he was imprisioned for theft.}}
** [[You Didn't Ask]]
* [[Oops, I Forgot I Was Married]]
* [[The Stoic]]
** [[Stoic Woobie]]: As seen when he is initially asked to leave Lord Grantham's service.
* [[Team Dad]]: To the younger staff.
* [[Will They or Won't They?]]: He and Anna.
==== Sarah O'Brien, Lady Grantham's Lady's Maid (Siobhan Finneran) ====
[[File:Downton_Obrien_415.jpg|frame]]
* [[Card-Carrying Villain]]: Ostensibly, with Thomas.
* [[Consummate Liar]]: O'Brien's all honey around around Lady Cora. ...and arsenic with everyone else.
* [[Deadpan Snarker]]
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* [[Didn't See That Coming]]: A reckless plan to save her job turned into a Type 5 situation. {{spoiler|After miscarrying, Cora's baby was revealed to be male}}. Furthermore, Cora had planned to keep O'Brien on anyway. And Downton is in just as bad financial shape as its ever been.
** Type 2 occurs when she summons Vera to collect Bates. Instead of focusing her wrath on Bates himself, Vera finds out about Mary's dalliance with Kamel Pamuk and threatens to tell the newspapers. Mary is forced to accept Sir Richard's proposal of marriage in order to kill the story. Whoops.
* [[Driven by Envy]]: So it would appear - she hates her lot in life.
* [[Evil Duo]]: With Thomas
* [[For the Evulz]]: Some of her malice is inexplicable, such as disseminating info about Mary's sexual dalliances to Edith. It's possible that O'Brien enjoys the game of exploiting secrets for its own sake.
* [[Good Smoking, Evil Smoking]]: The two evil characters frequently plot whilst having a sneaky fag.
* [[Gossipy Hens]]
* [[Hazy Feel Turn]]: The business with the soap obviously preys on her. She is even {{spoiler|softening towards Bates, testifying in his defense at trial.}}
* [[Karma Houdini]]: Cunningly, she has remained Cora's most beloved and trusted servant.
* [[Maid]]
* [[Malicious Slander]]: Her speciality.
* [[Manipulative Bastard|Manipulative Bitch]]: Her schemes include trying to get Bates fired {{spoiler|and to expose Lady Mary's affair with Pamuk, riling Cora up against Sybil becoming a nurse, repeatedly sending Ethel on fool's errands, getting Thomas transferred to the Downton hospital, and then getting him placed in charge of the convalescents in order to take Isobel down a peg, trying to get Mrs. Bird and Mrs. Patmore in trouble for feeding the indigent veterans and telling Vera that Bates is back at Downton.}} So far.
* [[Mirror Monologue]]: Briefly, just before she regretfully {{spoiler|realises the implications of placing a bar of soap on the floor of Lady Cora's bathroom....}}
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* [[Two Rights Make a Wrong]]: For all her lecturing at Thomas about playing it smart, O'Brien's schemes have an uncanny knack of blowing up in her face.
* [[Ultimate Job Security]]: Carson comes down a lot harder on other servants for smaller offenses. Mrs. Hughes catches O'Brien ransacking her room in search of a stolen snuff box, which seems pretty damming, but nothing comes of it.
* [[Would Hurt a Child]]: Managed to kill {{spoiler|Cora's unborn son}} with a handy bar of soap.
* [[Zany Scheme]]
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* [[All Love Is Unrequited]]: He appears genuinely crushed when {{spoiler|Crowborough spurns his affections, dimissing him as no more than a "youthful dalliance". }}
* [[The Bully]]: To William.
* [[But Not Too Gay]]: Although the first episode showed that Thomas certainly was able to have a love life, there's been barely a trace of it since
* [[Card-Carrying Villain]]: Ostensibly, with O'Brien.
* [[Deadpan Snarker]]
* [[Depraved Homosexual]]: His encounters with {{spoiler|Pamuk and Crowborough}}.
* [[Dirty Coward]]: Intentionally got his hand shot by a German sharpshooter in order to be shipped back home.
* [[Driven by Envy]]: Mrs Hughes thinks he's just jealous because everyone likes William.
* [[Drunk with Power]]: He's on the make, to put it lightly.
* [[Establishing Character Moment]]: "You're late when '''I''' say you're late."
* [[Even Evil Has Standards]]: Disapproves of the hospital's ill-treatment of William ([[Hypocritical Heartwarming|whom he hates]]), causing the entire staff to look at him, stunned.
{{quote|'''Thomas''': "I'm a working class lad and so is he. And I get fed up of seeing how our lot always get shafted."}}
** He also tells O'Brien she shouldn't have written to Vera, telling the latter Bates was back at Downton, and genuinely doesn't seem to want to see Bates {{spoiler|hanged for murder.}}
* [[Evil Duo]]: With O'Brien.
* [[Evil Is Petty]]: He's constantly trying to get Bates fired, and [[Incompatible Orientation|flirts with Daisy]], just to hurt William.
* [[Freudian Excuse]]: He was picked on for being "different," and that's why he's so mean.
** [[Gayngst]]
* [[Good Smoking, Evil Smoking]]: The two evil characters frequently plot whilst having a sneaky fag.
* [[Gossipy Hens|Gossipy Hen]]
* [[Malicious Slander]]: His speciality.
* [[Manipulative Bastard]]: Eager to be promoted to butler or valet as soon as possible, even if it means kidnapping pets.
* [[Red Right Hand]] / [[Scars Are Forever]]: Wears a black glove on his injured hand.
* [[Shiny Midnight Black]]
* [[Smug Snake]]
* [[
* [[Tall, Dark and Snarky]]
* [[Tyrant Takes the Helm]]: Promoted to first footman after weaseling his way out of service.
* [[Ultimate Job Security]]: Can be as rude as he pleases, and no one bats an eyelash. Bates catches him stealing wine, but [[Good Is Dumb|can't bring himself]] to have Thomas fired. So what does Thomas do? Pin the stolen wine on Bates!
* [[Villain Ball]]: With the onset on World War I, he plots to have himself signed up to the medical corps for an easy ride, but in reality {{spoiler|he ends up on the front line.}}
* [[Villainous Breakdown]]: As seen when the [[Black Market|black market comestibles]] he plans to profit from turn out to be inedible, leading him to trash his storage shed in a tearful, blind rage.
* [[Zany Scheme]]
==== William Mason, Second Footman (Thomas Howes) ====
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* [[Adorkable]]: He really is.
* {{spoiler|[[Anyone Can Die]]: Having bravely saved the life of Mathew during the final push at Amiens.}}
** [[Tear Jerker]]: {{spoiler|His death-bed wedding to Daisy is particularly upsetting.}} Even the Dowager Countess is moved by it.
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* [[Beware the Nice Ones]]
* [[Break the Cutie]]: He tries to be positive, but Thomas's cruel teasing eventually causes him to snap.
** [[The Woobie]]
* [[Dogged Nice Guy]]: He's clearly in love with Daisy....although she doesn't want to know with Thomas in the picture.
* [[Good Old Fisticuffs]]: Thomas vs. William and our Will valiantly carries the day.
* [[Heroic Wannabe]]: At the start of Series 2, he's desperate to sign up to the army.
** [[Jumped At the Call]]
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* [[Maid]]
** [[Ninja Maid]]: Anna takes to the role of plucky girl detective like a duck to water.
* [[May-December Romance]]: She and Bates.
* [[Nice Guy|Nice Girl]]
* [[Plucky Girl]]
* [[Single Woman Seeks Good Man]]
* [[Team Mom|Team Mum]]: For the younger staff.
* [[Will They or Won't They?]]: She and Bates.
==== Gwen Dawson, a Housemaid (Rose Leslie) ====
* [[Maid]]
* [[Small Town Boredom]]: She's determined to make a better life for herself as a secretary.
* [[Wish Fulfillment]]
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* [[Maid]]
** [[Servile Snarker]]
* [[Rebellious Spirit]]: As O'Brien says:
{{quote|'''O'Brien''': You've got a cheek for your first day.}}
* [[Small Name, Big Ego]]: She is convinced she's going to make it big as a movie star, for no apparent reason.
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* [[Butt Monkey]]
* [[Horrible Judge of Character]]: She's in love with ''Thomas'' of all people.
* [[Rear Window Witness]]
* [[Scullery Maid]]
* [[He Knows Too Much|She Knows Too Much]]: Having {{spoiler|witnessed Lady Mary, her mother and Anna moving Pamuk's body across the landing..}}
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* [[Screw the Money, I Have Rules]]: {{spoiler|When Robert offers him money to forget about Sybil, he refuses.}}
* [[Star-Crossed Lovers]]: He and Lady Sybil.
* [[Strawman Political]]: A little, but it's used as a [[Plot Device]] to encourage Sybil's rebellious streak.
* [[Token Minority]]: Token Irishman.
* [[Will They or Won't They?]]: With Sybil. {{spoiler|[[They Do]].}}
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==== Joseph Molesley, Mathew Crawley's Butler (Kevin Doyle) ====
* [[Butt Monkey]]
* [[Draft Dodging|Draft Dodger]]: Aided by the Dowager Countess.
* [[Hopeless Suitor]]: Nice try, Molesley, but Anna's taken.
* [[Non-Action Guy]]
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* {{spoiler|[[Death of the Hypotenuse]]}}
* [[Fragile Flower]]
* [[Hair of Gold]]: On the strawberry-blonde side.
* [[I Want My Beloved to Be Happy]]: {{spoiler|After hearing that Violet wanted Matthew to marry Mary and then seeing them kiss, Lavinia tries to convince him to go back to Mary for that reason, but [[Death of the Hypotenuse|she dies of Spanish flu]] before Matthew can argue with her.}}
* {{spoiler|[[Killed Off for Real]]}}
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* [[Mysterious Past]]
* [[Replacement Love Interest]]: For Matthew, following Lady Mary's dithering over his proposal.
* {{spoiler|[[Romantic False Lead]]}}: Though for many viewers this was probably something of a [[Foregone Conclusion]].
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* [[Da Editor]]
* [[Dark Secret]]: {{spoiler|Lavinia's father owed him large sums of money, so in order to clear his debts, he forced Lavinia to steal confidential government papers.}}
* [[Fee Fi Faux Pas]]: He makes a few, betraying his bourgeois origins.
{{quote|'''Carlisle''': Ah, Lady Painswick.
'''Rosamund''': Lady ''Rosamund''. }}
* [[Guttural Growler]]
* [[I Dub Thee Sir Knight]]: His "Sir" title is not hereditary.
* [[Mysterious Past]]
* [[Old Media Are Evil]]: His influence runs throughout England like an oil slick.
* [[Replacement Love Interest]]: For Lady Mary.
* {{spoiler|[[Romantic False Lead]]}}: Though the show did play with this a bit; everyone expected Mary to leave him after {{spoiler|Lavinia's death}}, but it {{spoiler|still took her an episode or so to do it}}.
* [[The Scrooge]]: Sir Richard doesn't see any reason to give the staff time off for Christmas.
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==== The Duke of Crowborough ====
* [[Aristocrats Are Evil]]
* [[Bi the Way]]: He dismisses his love affair with {{spoiler|Thomas}} as a mere " youthful dalliance".
** Considering the time period, he may just be gay and [[The Beard|feigning interest in women]]; the fact that he seems to be selecting them purely based on money/connections doesn't help matters.
* [[Blue Blood]]
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* [[Entitled Bastard]]
* [[Experimented in College]]: An older variant of this - see [[Bi the Way]] above.
* [[Guilty Pleasure]]: {{spoiler|Thomas, for him}}.
* [[Manipulative Bastard]]: He flirts with Mary, purely to gain access to the servants quarters {{spoiler|to retrieve potentially scandalous letters he has written to Thomas, his lover.}}
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* [[I Kiss Your Hand]]
* [[Temporary Love Interest]]: For Lady Mary.
* [[Turks With Troops]]: He is an Ottoman Empire Embassy attaché.
==== Sir Anthony Strallan (Robert Bathurst) ====
* [[Big Fancy House]]: A gorgeous Queen Anne mansion.
* [[Blue Blood]]
* [[Dogged Nice Guy]]: When it comes to Edith.
* [[Geeky Turn On]]: For Edith.
* [[I Want My Beloved to Be Happy]]: He clearly still has feelings for Edith, but declares that Edith is too young and pretty to spend her life as his nurse (his arm was injured in the war). She's not impressed by this argument, and their storyline is left inconclusive in the Christmas special.
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