Downton Abbey - William Mason/Thomas Howes #1: He is the kindest, sweetest and most genuine person!

kindness is free · 04-04-2012, 04:06 AM

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William Mason | Thomas Howes
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William Mason

William was one of the footmen at Downton. He one day would’ve liked to be the butler of the house, and was very careful not to get of Carson’s bad side because of this. William had a crush on Daisy but she seemed to only have eyes for Thomas and made some very rude remarks to William. That was until Thomas made her lie about some stolen wine from the cabinet. She then apologized to William and he began to believe that Daisy had started to have feelings for him as well. At the end of Season 1 Thomas’s mother fell ill and died, William was the last to know about her sickness and was informed about it by Lady Mary. When Thomas made some choicest remarks about his mother William finally gave Thomas what he had coming to him, a punch in the face. In season 2 William desperately wanted to join the army to fight for the country but his father refused him to since he was all his father had left. He argued to Daisy about how unfair it was that he couldn’t enlist and Daisy kissed him to make him feel better which William then assumed meant that they were now together. Soon William gets drafted and got sent off to training. When he arrived back from training William proposed to Daisy who agreed because she was afraid that if she told him the truth about not having feelings for him, she’d get him killed. When at the front Matthew and William stumbled upon some German soldiers and then were declared missing in action for some time but then found their way home soon after. At the Battle of the Amiens William through himself in front of a land mine for Matthew leaving both men severely injured. Matthew survived but William sustained too much internal damage and ended up dying, but not before he got his final wish, and married Daisy.

Thomas Howes

Thomas Howes is born in 1986 in Doncaster, Yorkshire. He trained at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama.He is best known for having played the role of William, the second footman in ITV’s Downton Abbey, and played the role of Manchester United’s captain Mark Jones in the 2011 TV film of the Munich air disaster, United. He also has performed on the stage in the roles of Dickie in The Winslow Boy (The Theatre Royal, Bath) and Scripps in The History Boys (The UK tour of the National Theatre), and on radio in the role of Joseph Prado in Tulips in Winter. He also played the role of Little Ralf in the BBC’s ChuckleVision series The Mystery of Little-Under-Standing.