Albert Norton Richards, QC (December 8, 1821 – March 6, 1897) was a Canadian lawyer and political figure.

[1] He was born in Brockville in Upper Canada in 1821,[1] the son of Stephen Richards and Phoebe Buell.

[2] He studied law with his brother William Buell Richards and was called to the bar in 1848.

In 1869, he was named Attorney General in the provisional government of the Northwest but was turned back by the rebels at Pembina.

[3] Richards served as Treasurer (chief elected officer) of the Law Society of British Columbia from 1889 to 1892 and from 1894 to 1897.