# Mason — An Ideal Husband character guide

> Mason in An Ideal Husband by Oscar Wilde.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Enter Mason, Mason Lady Markby, Mason Lord Caversham, Mason Lord Goring, Mr. Montford Mason

**First appearance:** 0001-an-ideal-husband

## Snapshot

The Chilterns' butler, whose job is announcing guests — and whose entrances quietly steer the drawing-room comedy of manners.

## Who they are

Mason moves through the Chilterns' house ushering in the parade of callers — Lady Markby, Lord Caversham, Lord Goring — that keeps the play's social machinery turning. His announcements are the hinge on which the morning-room scenes swing, dropping titled visitors into the middle of flirtations and negotiations already in progress. He matters because Wilde's satire depends on this steady traffic of the fashionable: Mason is the door through which the plot's complications keep walking in.

## Relationships

### [Mrs. Cheveley](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/an_ideal_husband_se/characters/mrs_cheveley)

_professional_

Mason, a servant, attends to Mrs. Cheveley as a guest in the Chiltern household.

### [Lady Chiltern](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/an_ideal_husband_se/characters/lady_chiltern)

_professional_

Mason is the butler in Lady Chiltern's household, serving her with deference.

### [Sir Robert Chiltern](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/an_ideal_husband_se/characters/sir_robert_chiltern)

_professional_

Mason serves Sir Robert as the butler of the Chiltern household.

### [Mrs. Cheveley](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/an_ideal_husband_se/characters/mrs_cheveley)

_professional_

Mason, a servant, attends to Mrs. Cheveley as a guest in the Chiltern household.

### [Lady Chiltern](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/an_ideal_husband_se/characters/lady_chiltern)

_professional_

Mason is the butler in Lady Chiltern's household, serving her with deference.

### [Sir Robert Chiltern](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/an_ideal_husband_se/characters/sir_robert_chiltern)

_professional_

Mason serves Sir Robert as the butler of the Chiltern household.

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