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A Tory is a person who holds a political philosophy (Toryism) based on traditionalism and conservatism, originally from the Cavalier faction in the English Civil War.

Contents

• Given name
• Female
• Male
• Surname
• Fictional characters
• Other uses
• See also

It commonly refers to:

• Conservative Party (UK), a British political party
• Conservative Party of Canada, a Canadian political party
  • Conservative Party of Canada (1867–1942)
  • Progressive Conservative Party of Canada (1942–2003)
• Loyalist faction in the American Revolution
• Tories (British political party), a British political faction of the 17th to 19th centuries
• Tory Party (disambiguation), other political parties by that name

Tory may also refer to:

Given name

Surname

• Geoffroy Tory (c.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 Mayor of Toronto
• John S. D. Tory (1903–1965), Canadian lawyer and father of John A. Tory
• Melanie Tory, Canadian computer scientist

Fictional characters

• Tory Boy, British TV show character
• Tory Nichols, Cobra Kai character

Other uses

• Tory, from Tóraidhe , Irish Catholic soldiers in the mid-1600s who fought for the Confederation of Kilkenny
• Tory Creek (disambiguation)
• Tory Island, an island off the north-west coast of Ireland
• Tory, a ship of the New Zealand Company in 1839–1840
• Tory (HBC vessel), chartered by the Hudson's Bay Company from 1851–1852, see Hudson's Bay Company vessels
• 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

See also

• Tori (name)
• Torey, given name and surname
• Torry (disambiguation)
• Torny Pedersen

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