Mr Alfred Smythe

Role Linguist & Cryptologist (Order of St. Aelfric) Nationality British Status alive

Background

Mr. Alfred Smythe is a linguist and cryptologist attached to the Order of St Aelfric, resident at Hartwell House. Short, bespectacled, with an impressive collection of pocket watches, he is the Order’s specialist in deciphering ancient languages, coded messages, and unknown dialects.

Cheerful but absent-minded, prone to tangents about etymology, always adjusting his spectacles when nervous.

Campaign History

• Winter 1813 (Training Montage): One of six instructors who trained the investigators at Hartwell House during the winter between The Long Corridor and The Scandal Beneath the Stage.

Connections

• Location: Hartwell House
• Organisation: Order of St Aelfric
• Fellow Instructors: Mr Tobias Whitmore, Miss Beatrice Harrow, Miss Dorothea Bexley, Mr Benedict Fairfax, Lady Wilhelmina Danvers