James Cranswick Tory

James Cranswick Tory
14th Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia
In office September 14, 1925 – November 19, 1930
Monarch	George V
Governors General	The Viscount Byng of Vimy The Viscount Willingdon
Premier	Edgar Nelson Rhodes Gordon Sidney Harrington
Preceded by	James Robson Douglas
Succeeded by	Frank Stanfield
MLA for Guysborough County
In office June 14, 1911 – June 25, 1925 Serving with James F. Ellis, Clarence W. Anderson
Preceded by	James F. Ellis William Whitman
Succeeded by	Simon Osborn Giffin Howard Amos Rice
Personal details
Born	(1862-10-24)October 24, 1862 Port Shoreham, Nova Scotia
Died	June 26, 1944(1944-06-26) (aged 81) Halifax, Nova Scotia
Nationality	Canadian
Political party	Liberal
Spouse	Caroline Whitman ​ (m. 1894)​
Relations	Robert Kirk Tory (father)
Alma mater	McGill University
Occupation	Businessman
Profession	Politician

James Cranswick Tory (October 24, 1862 – June 26, 1944) was a Nova Scotia businessman and politician. He was born in 1862 to Robert Kirk Tory and Anorah Ferguson in Guysborough County and lived in the village of Guysborough. He attended McGill University in Montreal and worked at Sun Life Assurance Company. In 1894, he married Caroline Whitman. Tory served as a Liberal MLA for Guysborough County in the Nova Scotia House of Assembly from 1911 to 1925. He was a minister without portfolio in the province's Executive Council from 1921 to 1925. Tory was appointed the 14th Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia and served from 1925 to 1930. He died in Halifax.

Tory's younger brothers were Henry Marshall Tory, founding president of the University of Alberta and the National Research Council of Canada, and John A. Tory Sr. (1869–1950).

A portrait of him hangs in the Tupper Building, Dalhouise University, Nova Scotia.

External links

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• Marble, AE Nova Scotians at home and abroad: biographical sketches ... (1977) p. 385 ISBN 0-88999-074-3