Rev. Raymond P. Dougherty served as the first principal of Albert Academy during its founding period in 1904.
Rev. Raymond P. Dougherty is recorded as the first principal of Albert Academy, placing him at the centre of the school's earliest institutional years.
His leadership belongs to the formative period of the Academy, when the school was establishing its academic and organisational foundations in Freetown.
His place in the school's history connects the present-day Academy with the people who helped establish its early educational tradition.