page_title: List of Downton Abbey characters
section_title: Isobel Crawley
hierarchical_section_title: List of Downton Abbey characters / The Crawley family / Isobel Crawley
caption_attribution_description: Svenska: Skådespelaren Penelope Wilton på Sverigebesök i Stockholm i december 2013.English: Actor Penelope Wilton visiting Stockholm in Sweden in December 2013.
context_page_description: This is a list of characters from Downton Abbey, a British period drama television series created by Julian Fellowes and co-produced by Carnival Films and Masterpiece for ITV and PBS, respectively.
context_section_description: Isobel Grey (formerly Crawley, née Turnbull), Lady Merton (played by Penelope Wilton) is Matthew's widowed mother. A recurring theme during the first two series is the clash between Isobel's more modern and liberal values with the traditionalist ideas of Lord Grantham and his family. Isobel, a former nurse, constantly takes up new charitable causes, helping run the convalescent home at Downton and assisting refugees and prostitutes, though her sense of moral imperative often irritates others. She maintains a quarrelsome rivalry with Violet, the Dowager Countess, but this eventually develops into a genuine friendship, especially after Isobel is grief-stricken by Matthew's unexpected death at the end of the third series. In the fourth series, Isobel receives a marriage proposal from Lord Merton, and despite a health scare and his sons' attempts to prevent the marriage, Isobel decides to marry him in the final series.
caption: Wilton portrays Isobel Crawley
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