Edward Ashford
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| Edward Ashford | |
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| Date of birth: | 1917 |
| Date of death: | 1968 (51) |
| Gender: | Male |
| Race/Ethnicity: | Caucasian |
| Occupation: | Researcher |
| Status: | Deceased |
| Continuity: | Games |
Edward Ashford was one of the first Western discoverers of the Progenitor virus and a co-founder of Umbrella Chemical, Inc.. Ashford was a consummate scientific mind, possessing none of the overzealous ambitions for power and wealth that his co-founders, Ozwell E. Spencer and James Marcus, were so driven to achieve. However, Ashford contracted the Progenitor virus and died in 1968, possibly sparing him the wrath of the treacherous Spencer, who had his remaining co-founder, James Marcus, assassinated to bolster his position within the Umbrella Corporation.
The Progenitor virus would eventually lead to the horrors of the tyrant virus, and Ashford's own grandchildren, Alfred and Alexia, would visit their own terrors upon humanity.
Yasuhiro Seto, the developer of Resident Evil: The Darkside Chronicles, has stated in his blog regarding the Ashford Family:
"The Ashford family bloodline has been cursed ever since Edward, the 5th generation family head, founded the Umbrella Corporation. This curse also affected his heir Alexander, and his children Alfred and Alexia."
This curse would eventually cause the gradual decline and eventual extinction of the once proud Ashford family.
[1] Edward's only known physical appearance is of a portrait in the Palace on Rockfort Island that portrayed him as an elderly man. [2]
[edit] Family Tree of the Ashford Dynasty
| Veronica Ashford | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Thomas | Arthur | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Edward | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Alfred | Alexia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
[edit] references
- ↑ Resident Evil Code: Veronica
- ↑ Resident Evil Code: Veronica
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