Tory (disambiguation)

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The term Tory may refer to:

• Tory, the ancestor of the modern UK Conservative Party
• Conservative Party (UK)
• Scottish Unionist Party
• Several different political parties in Canada, which succeeded one another:
  • Conservative Party of Canada (historical) (1867-1942)
  • Progressive Conservative Party of Canada (1942-2003)
  • Conservative Party of Canada (2003-present)

as well as their provincial Progressive Conservative Party counterparts, such as the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario

• Loyalist (American Revolution)
• Tory Island, an island located off the north west coast of Donegal in 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
• The Tory Party of the Yale Political Union.

Irish guerrillas in the 1640s and 50s.

• Tory, from Tóraidhe (modern Irish Tóraí), ‎meaning "pursued man", were Irish Catholic soldiers who fought for the Confederation of Kilkenny who resorted to guerrilla warfare on the defeat of the Confederates and their Royalist allies. They degenerated into brigands during the Interregnum.

People named Tory:

• John H. Tory, leader of the Ontario Progressive Conservative Party
• John A. Tory, Canadian lawyer and father of John H. Tory
• Tory Foster, a fictional character on the Battlestar Galactica science fiction television program
• Tory Mussett, actress
• Tory Belleci, MythBuster