Professor Cahalane

Professor Cahalane was a Professor and Trinity College in Dublin, he was one of Richard Croft's closest friends.

Lara consulted him with two artifacts, to determine their origin, He asks her to leave them with him for further examination.

He is later murdered by the Daughter of Matsu, to retrieve the relics to fulfill the Solarii Worshipers' plan.

Trivia
Cahalne appears in the Tomb Raider Ten Thousand immortals, though it makes no sense, since Ten Thousand immortals takes place a year after Yamatai, according to Lara, but he dies only a few weeks after Yamatai in the comics - it's not true - the book says that it takes place few weeks after the game, so it's BEFORE events from comics. It was confirmed by Crystals in the foreword.