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12 unusual facts about Tory


Arthur Seldon

Seldon's widow Marjorie was interviewed about his work at the IEA and the rise of Thatcherism for the 2006 BBC TV documentary series Tory! Tory! Tory!.

Augustus Johnston

He also served briefly as a stamp distributor during the controversial Stamp Act 1765 protests and later fled Rhode Island after the Revolutionary War due to his Tory sympathies.

Chrononhotonthologos

Henry Carey was a Tory, or an anti-Walpolean, and he identified with Alexander Pope, in particular, in his stance on the 18th century's cultural polemic (see Augustan poetry for the issues behind Ambrose Philips and Alexander Pope's poison pen battle).

Duke of Manchester

He represented Huntingdon in the House of Commons as a Tory.

Gary Masyk

On June 29, 2004, Masyk left the Tory caucus after Premier Klein's health care policies became an issue and, according to Masyk, a factor in the outcome of the 2004 federal election.

Harry Danford

Danford defeated fellow Tory MPP Bill Vankoughnet to win the Progressive Conservative nomination for the 1999 provincial election in Hastings—Frontenac—Lennox and Addington, but lost to Liberal Leona Dombrowsky by almost 2,000 votes.

John Manners, 1st Duke of Rutland

Reappointed in 1689 after the Glorious Revolution, he resigned in 1702, to protest government promotion of Tory interests in Leicestershire.

Philip Bertie

In the House of Commons, he seems to have followed his family in becoming part of the Tory faction of his uncle Danby (now Duke of Leeds).

Sir John Pakington, 3rd Baronet

Like most of his family he was a Tory and served as Member of Parliament for Worcestershire in James II's Parliament.

The City Heiress

The play concerns the "seditious knight" Sir Timothy Treat-all and his Tory nephew Tom Wilding both vying for the affections of Charlot, the eponymous city (London) heiress.

William Cheyne, 2nd Viscount Newhaven

William Cheyne, 2nd Viscount Newhaven (14 July 1657 – 26 May 1728) was an English Tory politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1681 until 1707 when as a viscount in the Peerage of Scotland he was required to sit in the House of Lords.

William Paget, 1st Baron Paget

Henry, the 7th baron (c.1665-1743), was raised to the peerage during his father's lifetime as Baron Burton in 1712, being one of the twelve peers created by the Tory ministry to secure a majority in the House of Lords, and was created Earl of Uxbridge in 1714.


1992 Grand National

With regular rider Anthony Tory unavailable, champion jockey Peter Scudamore took the ride and gave their backers every chance jumping the Canal Turn on the second circuit among an unusually large number of runners still holding a chance of victory.

32nd Canadian Parliament

:* Elmer MacKay resigned his seat to give new Tory leader Brian Mulroney a place in the Commons after an August 1983 by-election.

Arthur Annesley

Arthur Annesley, 5th Earl of Anglesey (1678–1737), Anglo-Irish Tory politician, succeeded as 6th Viscount Valentia

Baron Skelmersdale

His grandson, the second Baron (the son of the Hon. Richard Bootle-Wilbraham), was a Conservative politician and served in the Tory administrations of Disraeli and Lord Salisbury.

Bolton Hall, North Yorkshire

She married Thomas Orde, who in 1795 assumed the additional surname of Powlett and was a Tory politician.

Britannia Unchained

The book is written by Kwasi Kwarteng, Priti Patel, Dominic Raab, Chris Skidmore and Elizabeth Truss – five Tory MPs who were elected in May 2010 and belong to the party's Thatcherite-leaning Free Enterprise Group.

British Helsinki Human Rights Group

Material that the BHHRG issued in 1992 cited the Tory peer Lord Pearson of Rannoch and the David and Lucile Packard Foundation as donors.

Charles Skelton

Skelton's uncle Abraham Doan was a member of the infamous Doan Outlaws, and was executed for his role as a Tory during the American Revolution.

Christopher Musgrave

Sir Christopher Musgrave, 4th Baronet (1631–1704), Tory politician and MP, teller of the Exchequer

Duke of Buckingham

The title of Duke of Buckingham and Normanby was created in 1703 for John Sheffield, Marquess of Normanby, a notable Tory politician of the late Stuart period, who served under Queen Anne as Lord Privy Seal and Lord President of the Council.

Edward Herbert

Edward Herbert, 2nd Earl of Powis (1785–1848), British peer and Tory politician; MP for Ludlow

Edward Tyas Cook

Cook's tenure as editor of the Pall Mall Gazette was cut short when he was obliged to resign along with the rest of the political staff after the paper was sold to W. W. Astor, who changed its politics to support Tory positions.

Elections in England and Wales, 1949

Tory leader Winston Churchill told a rally at the Royal Albert Hall that the County Council contests had seen great Conservative victories and there was a prospect of more to come.

Ernie Parsons

His victory in the 1999 provincial election was unexpected, as he defeated incumbent Progressive Conservative Gary Fox by 56 votes in Prince Edward—Hastings, which most considered to be a safe Tory seat.

Errol Black

He won the New Democratic Party's Brandon—Souris nomination in 2000 over Wayne Langlois, and finished fourth against Tory candidate Rick Borotsik.

Gerald Caplan

Following the 1988 federal election, he co-authored Election : the issues, the strategies, the aftermath with Liberal strategiest Michael Kirby and Tory strategist Hugh Segal.

Henry Trelawny

Made a freeman of Portsmouth in 1683 and East Looe in 1685, he was returned to Parliament in the latter year for West Looe as a Tory on the interest of his eldest brother, Bishop Trelawny.

John Hoskyns

Hoskyns was interviewed about Stepping Stones and the rise of Thatcherism for the 2006 BBC TV documentary series Tory! Tory! Tory!.

Kensington by-election, 1988

Normally a relatively safe Tory seat, it was narrowly won by Dudley Fishburn, who would go on to retain the seat in 1992.

London Evening Post

The London Evening Post was a pro-Jacobite Tory English newspaper published in Great Britain (now United Kingdom) from 1727 until 1797.

Marquess of Normanby

He was a notable Tory politician of the late Stuart period, who served under Queen Anne as Lord Privy Seal and Lord President of the Council.

Michael Sadler

Michael Thomas Sadler (1780-1835), radical British Tory Member of Parliament

Moll Flanders

His political work was tapering off at this point, due to the fall of both Whig and Tory party leaders with whom he had been associated; Robert Walpole was beginning his rise, and Defoe was never fully at home with the Walpole group.

Pakington family

Their grandson, Sir John, the 4th baronet (1671–1727) was a pronounced high Tory and was very prominent in political life; for long he was regarded as the original of Joseph Addison's Sir Roger de Coverley, but the reasons for this supposition are now regarded as inadequate.

Pat Nowlan

In 1991, Nowlan was expelled from the Tory caucus after voting against the Mulroney government's introduction of the Goods and Services Tax.

Phyllis Court

In the mid 17th century Phillis Court was the home of Sir Bulstrode Whitelocke (1605–1675), parliamentarian and Lord Keeper of the Great Seal, who before his death gave it up to his son William Whitelock, later Tory member of parliament for the University of Oxford.

Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario

The Tories played up Cold War tensions to win a landslide majority, though it emerged several years later that the Tory government had set up a secret department of the Ontario Provincial Police to spy on the opposition and the media.

Rogers Communications

While Ted Rogers was an articling student with Tory, Tory, DesLauriers & Binnington, he started Rogers Radio Broadcasting Limited, which acquired Canada's pioneer FM station, CHFI-FM.

Saskatchewan general election, 1991

The Liberal Party – led by Lynda Haverstock – was able to attract a much larger share of disaffected Tory voters.

Sibthorp

Colonel Sibthorp (1783–1855), widely caricatured British Ultra-Tory politician in the early 19th century

Sir James Graham, 1st Baronet

Sir James Graham, 1st Baronet, of Kirkstall (1753–1825), Tory MP for Cockermouth, Wigtown Burghs and Carlisle

Sir William Curtis, 1st Baronet

A lifelong Tory, he was elected as a Member of Parliament for the City of London at the 1790 general election.

The Battle of the Books

However, John Ozell attempted to answer Swift with his translation of Le Lutrin, where the battle sees Tory authors skewered by Whigs.

Thomas Coningsby, 1st Earl Coningsby

He was one of the managers of Henry Sacheverell's trial, and, like most of the prominent whigs, he lost his seat in parliament as a result of the ensuing tory reaction.

Thomas de Grey

Thomas de Grey, 2nd Earl de Grey (1781-1859), British Tory politician and statesman

Tim Devlin

Tim Devlin, while a Tory MP, helped arrange a meeting in which Customs was ordered to drop charges against Middlesbrough drug trafficker Brian Charrington on drug-smuggling changes on 28 January 1993.

Tim Uppal

In April 2010 Uppal was involved in a controversy with Canadian Gemini-winning filmmaker, Ali Kazimi, when a Tory campaign ad was launched using a copyrighted image.

TONY! The Blair Musical

Once again in the spotlight, Tony recounts to the audience how the Conservative opposition was no competition, before a barbershop quartet of former Tory leaders - John Major, William Hague, Iain Duncan Smith and Michael Howard - shuffle on stage in boaters to sing their comic song in which they lament how they all fell foul of Mr. Blair.

Tory Belleci

Tory Belleci; a filmmaker and model maker, is best known for his work on the Discovery Channel television program MythBusters.

Whiggism

The opposing Tory position was held by the other great families, the Church of England, and most of the landed gentry and officers of the army and the navy.

William Cavendish-Bentinck

William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland (1738–1809), British Whig and Tory statesman and Prime Minister