Chief Theophilus Adebayo Doherty Listenⓘ (24 February 1895 – 18 November 1974) was a Nigerian businessman and politician.
Doherty studied for a Commercial Certificate at the London School of Economics and Political Science from 1916 to 1919 and was admitted to the Middle Temple on 13 June 1918.
[1] 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.
[3] In 1933, he founded the National Bank of Nigeria alongside Dr. Akinola Maja, Olatunde Johnson and a few other businessmen.
[4] In the 1940s, the association was a leading indigenous elite business group that negotiated trading concessions with the colonial government.