Tory (disambiguation)

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