Tory (disambiguation)
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A Tory holds a political philosophy (Toryism) based on the traditionalism and conservatism, originally from the Cavalier faction in the English Civil War.
Tory may also refer to:
Politics
- Conservative Party (UK)
- Tories (British political party), the ancestor of the modern UK Conservative Party
- Unionist Party (Scotland)
- Conservative Party of Canada (1867–1942), and successors:
- Progressive Conservative Party of Canada (1942–2003)
- Conservative Party of Canada (2003–present)
- Loyalist (American Revolution)
- Southern Unionist, during the American Civil War
- Australian Liberal Party
- New Zealand National Party
- Tory Party, of the Yale Political Union
- Tory, from Tóraidhe, Irish Catholic soldiers in the mid 1600s who fought for the Confederation of Kilkenny
People
- Geoffroy Tory (~1480–1533), French humanist and engraver
- Henry Marshall Tory (1864–1967), Canadian university administrator
- James Cranswick Tory (1862–1944), Canadian lawyer and politician
- John A. Tory (1930–2011), Canadian lawyer and father of John H. Tory
- John Tory (born 1954), former Leader of the Ontario Progressive Conservative Party, and currently the Mayor of Toronto
- John S. D. Tory (1903–1965), Canadian lawyer and father of John A. Tory
Other uses
- Tory Creek, a river in Virginia
- Tory Island, an island off Ireland
- Tory (ship), a ship of the New Zealand Company in 1839–40
- Torys, a Canadian law firm and a member of the Bay Street Seven Sisters
- Tory, the code name of a nuclear reactor developed for Project Pluto
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