Albert Way

Albert Way FSA (23 June 1805 – 22 March 1874) was an English antiquary, and principal founder of the Royal Archaeological Institute.

He was the only son of Lewis Way (1772–1840) of Stansted Park, near Racton, Sussex, by his wife Mary (1780–1848), daughter of Herman Drewe, rector of Combe Raleigh, Devon.

Lewis was the second son of Benjamin Way of Denham, Buckinghamshire, and elder brother of Sir Gregory Holman Bromley Way.

A comic coat of arms drawn by May that April featured tobacco pipes, cigars, wine barrel and tankards, with a Latin announcement that they were best friends, and Way was more smoke-filled.

He was one of the honorary secretaries to the Institute, and organised many of its meetings and exhibitions in different parts of the country.

He had to reduce his involvement after 1863 for health reasons, but he continued to assist with the Institute's Journal until 1868.