Theophilus Adebayo Doherty (born
24 February 1895) was a Nigerian businessman and politician.
Background
A member of the Nigerian National Democratic Party,
Doherty was elected to the Legislative
Council representing Lagos in 1928, and was re-elected in 1933.He did not contest the 1938 elections.
In 1933, he founded the National Bank of Nigeria alongside
Olatunde Johnson and a few other businessmen. He also became a prominent member
of the Nigerian Association of African Importers and Exporters, an association
designed to link African traders who depend on foreign firms for goods with
overseas trading houses and also act as an African Chamber of Commerce.
In the 1940s, the
association was a leading indigenous elite business group that negotiated
trading concessions with the colonial government.
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