Lord Richard Croft

Lord Richard Croft is the father of Lara Croft and husband of Lady Amelia Croft according to Crystal Dynamics' revised biography of Lara Croft.

Biography from Anniversary

Lord Richard Croft, was tutored at Eton in anthropology and archaeology. With the considerable wealth of the Croft family behind him, Richard spent his younger years mounting innumerable expeditions to historical sites world wide in an effort to support his unconventional hypothesis of a base culture that predated known history. Richard and his wife, Lady Amelia DeMornay, had Lara only a year after marrying. Nine years later, after Amelia disappeared in a plane crash, Richard sank further and further into obsession, consumed with discovering what had become of her. A few years later, he himself died while on a dig in Cambodia.

Untimely Demise

In Tomb Raider Underworld, Jacqueline Natla reveals that she manipulated Richard Croft into searching for Thor's Gauntlets, on a quest to discover the fate of his wife Amelia. When he discovered Natla's goal, he betrayed his employer, and for that she killed him.