- "He (Albert) was my everything. Is my everything. There are times I feel like I haven't been the same woman since he left this world."
- ―Alana Rose Dorian to her mother Juliette of her late husband, May 1875.
Albert Andreas Richardson (1833 - 1868) was an English accountant and businessman from Liverpool, Lancashire, England. He is known for his work with Richardson Shipping, a shipping company he worked for owned by his father, before branching out and starting a shipping company out of Crawley. However, Albert is best known for being the only husband of British Master Assassin Alana Rose Dorian and marrying into the Dorian Family of Assassins. He is of British, Welsh, and Russian descent.
Life[]
Early Years[]
Albert Andreas Richardson was born in the evening of September 7th, 1833 in the Everton neighborhood of Liverpool, England to Walter Peter Richardson, the wealthy owner of Richardson Shipping, and his wife Evelyn. The second child born to the couple after Evelyn miscarried, Albert grew up under the constant care of his mother, whereas his father couldn’t care less about caring for the young Albert due to his commitments about running his shipping company. When he was at home, Walter frequently abused his wife, often blaming her for the misfortunes that plagued the company he ran. Despite the constant abuse, his mother cared for her young son’s future education, sending him to school, where in his teens he would develop an interest in accounting, spreadsheets and ‘playing with money’. He would get his first job as a warehouse worker at his father’s warehouse, getting orders ready to shipped out, doing incredibly well at the age of 16. He would remain there until he turned 28, where he quit and moved to Crawley to be with his lover Alana.
Adult Life[]
After moving to Crawley to be with Alana, Albert opened up his own lumber shipping company out of Crawley, starting off with simple orders and deliveries to Crawley and the surrounding area, having a large workforce under his watch that was paid fairly. Within a year and a half of Albert starting his business, he was already a threat to the businesses of Rupert Ferris and Crawford Starrick in the area, at points even surpassing them when it came to net profits. His company would eventually become a face for the British Assassins, providing them with funds to travel around the world for their missions.
On July 1st, 1866, at the home of his mother in Liverpool, Alana would give birth to two children they would lovingly name Vienna Victoria and Cavan Samuel, with the latter bearing his last name. While Alana was recovering from blood loss after birth, Albert would care for the newborns alongside his mother. Three weeks after Alana gave birth, they traveled back to Crawley to raise their young twins.
Saving Alana from Death[]
In 1864, Alana was sentenced to six months in Newgate Prison for protesting. Albert would make a point of visiting Alana in her dilapidated cell whenever he could, filling her in on the news from the outside world. Just as her sentence was about to end, word reached Juliette, Maria, and Albert that Alana was to be executed by way of hanging. Without any hesitation, Albert suggested they take one of his carriages. The trio hurried to London to witness the prison guards escort Alana up to the gallows. Shortly after the arrival, Juliette tasked Albert with retrieving Alana amidst the chaos her and Maria were about to cause. Maria and Juliette hurled throwing knives at the rope and the executioner, causing the crowd to erupt into chaos. Albert navigated his way through the crowd and retrieved Alana, who was unconscious, bloodied, but still breathing. Once they rescued Alana, the trio traveled back to Crawley where Albert and Juliette tended to Alana’s wounds.
Death[]
- "Dear Mrs. Richardson. Now we are even. Erica D'Orelli."
- ―Erica D'Orelli's letter to Alana found on Albert's body, August 27th, 1868.
On the morning of August 27th, 1868, while sitting in a tea shop enjoying his black tea, he was approached by a middle aged woman, who spoke with an Italian-German accent, who sat down with her tea as well, where they discussed the state of British politics. While he was talking about Alana and not looking, the woman slipped aconite into his tea and tucked the vial in his shirt pocket. Upon seeing Juliette and his children approaching, the woman fled as he finished his poisoned tea. Meeting Juliette and his children outside, he posed for a quick photograph before returning to the Goff Mansion. While playing outside with the children, he began to feel nauseous and dizzy, before feeling a searing burning go throughout his body before collapsing to the ground grasping his chest. Juliette tried to resuscitate him many times, but it was too late. Albert Andreas Richardson passed away from aconite poisoning at the hands of Italo-German Templar Erica D’Orelli. He was 34 years old.
An autopsy was held at the request of Juliette to look into the cause of death. The autopsy report revealed that Albert had died from typhoid fever. After the autopsy concluded, Maria Williams snuck back into the autopsy room and discovered the aconite bottle with German Templar Erica D’Orelli’s name on it, which revealed that Albert was poisoned in revenge for Alana killing Erica’s husband Enrico in Egypt three years prior. With this news, Maria traveled to London to inform Alana.
His sudden death came as a shock for Alana, who had been away from him for over a year. Alana received the news in London and took the loss of her husband very hard. While she mourned, she stayed under the care of Queen Victoria in Buckingham Palace, rarely seen by the public for three months. It has been said that Alana was never the same woman ever since Albert’s passing. She would take several leaves of absence from the Brotherhood, which her mother Juliette called ‘expeditions’ in order to cope with the loss of Albert.
Personal Life[]
Growing up, Albert was destined to follow in his father’s footsteps and inherit his father’s shipping company. In his adult life, Albert realized that his love for Alana and being the man that his father never was more important for him, which led to tensions between him and his father, who held an absolute disdain for Alana for many reasons, most of all her Welsh accent.
He was known to be boisterous, cheerful, and caring around his peers and family. He and his coworkers in his father’s warehouse would often talk about all of the pretty women they see on the streets and in the pubs. He would later change his stance on this kind of talk upon courting Alana in 1858.
Albert had a good relationship with his mother, whom he cared for dearly due to his father’s constant disciplinarian views towards both of them. He had no respect for his father due to his flagrant abuse of women such as his mother and Alana, which led to him severing all ties with him upon his move to Crawley. Albert’s father supported the Confederate States of America, and used his company to ship items to support their cause, which led to more tension and separation between father and son.
Romantic Life[]
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Alana Rose Dorian, the widow of Albert Andreas Richardson, September 1876.
While in Nottingham on a business meeting with his father in 1858, Albert met a beautiful brown-haired young woman, who nervously introduced herself as Alana. At the time they met, Albert was twenty-five and Alana was eighteen years old. The two of them exchanged pleasantries and words before they exchanged addresses. They would exchange letters for several months before Albert announced to his family that he was planning to move to Crawley to live with his lover, which ended up costing him inheriting the shipping company from his father, which in Albert’s words ‘didn’t bother him much’. Upon his move to Crawley to be with Alana, their relationship blossomed, with Albert immediately earning the approval of Alana’s parents Juliette and Samuel, who described them as ‘passionate lovers’. His mother approved of Alana, despite saying she came across as ‘cocky and conceited’, but his father, a known misogynist, strongly disapproved, calling for Alana to be Albert’s ‘baby maker’ who should cater to his every need, which led to Albert rejecting his father outright. Albert would marry Alana in September of 1865, shortly after her return from the United States, and she would bear him two children in the form of fraternal twins, a girl, and a boy they would lovingly name Vienna Victoria and Cavan Samuel, in the home of his parents in Liverpool, much to his father’s objection. British Assassin Brotherhood tradition states that the first-born twin takes the mother's last name whereas the father's name would go to the second-born child.
Albert was known for his pampering and protectiveness of Alana, stating in his journals that it was ‘his job to treat Alana like a queen’, and to treat her like royalty, both in public and intimate life.
In her journals, Alana would describe Albert as an ‘ardent and extremely passionate’ lover who ‘worshipped all of her curves’ and made her ‘explode with pleasure’ during intimate moments in the bedroom.
Trivia[]
- Albert was known for his distinct Scouse accent, due to his birth in Liverpool.
- Albert was known for his appreciation of erotic art.
- Six of Alana’s Risque Photos were originally meant to be for Albert.
- Albert’s favorite color was beige.
- Albert was a known joker, pulling small practical jokes on the likes of Juliette, Samuel, and even Alana herself.
- Shortly before his death, there was speculation that Albert was going to be recruited into the Assassin Order by Alana.
- Alana's choker necklace pendant contained a small photo of Albert holding her two children, Vienna and Cavan, as a reminder that he will awalys be there with her.
- Artworks on this page were done by Timaeus (@timayonnaise) on Instagram.