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The old established form of English and, after the Act of Union, British conservatism, was the Tory Party.
However, the Gladstone Liberal government fell in 1874 before its entry into force, and the succeeding Disraeli Tory government suspended the entry into force of the Act by means of further Acts passed in 1874 and 1875.
Disraeli's old reputation as the " Tory democrat " and promoter of the welfare state fell away as historians showed he that Disraeli had few proposals for social legislation in 1874-80, and that the 1867 Reform Act did not reflect a vision Conservatism for the unenfranchised working man.
The Jacobite Uprising of 1715 discredited much of the Tory party as traitorous Jacobites, and Whig control of the levers of power ( e. g., through the Septennial Act ) ensured that the Whigs became the dominant party of government.
The Tory government under Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, responding to the danger of civil strife in largely Roman Catholic Ireland, drew up the Catholic Relief Act 1829.
Most of the pocket boroughs abolished by the Reform Act belonged to the Tory Party.
This was perhaps in part because Kitchener was thought to be a Tory ( the Liberals were in office at the time ); perhaps due to a Curzon-inspired whispering campaign ; but most importantly because Morley, who was a Gladstonian and thus suspicious of imperialism, felt it inappropriate, after the recent grant of limited self-government under the 1909 Indian Councils Act, for a serving soldier to be Viceroy.
Phillpotts was an energetic supporter of the Tory party, even when it acted contrary to his views in passing the Catholic Emancipation Act of 1829 In the House of Lords, Phillpotts opposed the 1832 Reform Bill and most other Whig reforms.
In 1970 Aitken was acquitted at the Old Bailey for breaching section 2 of the Official Secrets Act 1911, when he photocopied a report about the British government's supply of arms to Nigeria, and sent a copy to The Sunday Telegraph and to Hugh Fraser, a pro-Biafran Tory MP.
Shortly after Joe Clark was elected leader of the federal Tory Party, the federal government brought forward the Clarity Act.
During the crisis over the Parliament Act 1911, Halsbury was one of the principal leaders of the rebel faction of Tory peers — labelled the " Ditchers "— that resolved on all out opposition to the government's bill whatever happened.
The Tory objections to the legality of the charters led to them boycotting elections to the new boroughs until the enactment of the Borough Charters Confirmation Act 1842.
Malthusians perceived ideas of charity to the poor typified by Tory paternalism were futile, as these would only result in increased numbers of the poor, and was developed into Whig economic ideas exemplified by The Poor Law Amendment Act of 1834.
Redway, a Red Tory and supporter of public investment in housing, was forced to resign from Cabinet in 1991 for contravening the Aeronautics Act by joking that his friend was carrying a gun while boarding a plane at Ottawa International Airport.
He was also an ardent Tory, believing firmly that protest against Government wrongs should be carried out within the law – but definitely not an uncritical supporter of British policy ; for example, he considered the 1765 Stamp Act to be " oppressive, impolitic and illegal ", and the Royal proclamation against westward expansion of the thirteen colonies " unjust and impolitic ".

Tory and University
From Jacobite to Conservative: Reaction and Orthodoxy in Britain c. 1760 – 1832 ( Cambridge University Press, 1993 ), does not see Pitt as a Tory
William Henry Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland, KG, PC ( 14 April 1738 – 30 October 1809 ) was a British Whig and Tory statesman, Chancellor of the University of Oxford and twice Prime Minister of Great Britain, serving in 1783 and again from 1807 to 1809.
William Pitt the Younger was Member of Parliament for Cambridge University, to which, as The Times said, " accordingly most of the budding Tory statesmen of the day resorted ".
Tory building at the University of Alberta
With the hiring of Henry Marshall Tory in 1907, the University of Alberta started operation in 1908, using temporary facilities while the first building on campus, Athabasca Hall, was under construction.
In a letter to Alexander Cameron Rutherford in early 1906, while he was in the process of setting up McGill University College in Vancouver, Tory wrote, " If you take any steps in the direction of a working University and wish to avoid the mistakes of the past, mistakes which have fearfully handicapped other institutions, you should start on a teaching basis.
In 1806 Manners-Sutton was elected Tory Member of Parliament for Scarborough, a seat he would hold until 1832, and then sat for Cambridge University from 1832 to 1835.
* Dennis Lee: ' Lord Lyndhurst: The Flexible Tory ' - ISBN 0-87081-358-7, 318 pages-1994 Niwot ( Colorado ): University Press of Colorado.
* William Scott, Lord Stowell ( 1745 – 1836 ; Tory ; MP for Oxford University, lived at Erleigh Court from 1828 died there on 28th Jan 1836 )
Those Tory leaders who disliked Diefenbaker and his views, and hoped to find a candidate from Drew's conservative wing of the party, wooed University of Toronto president Sidney Smith as a candidate.
Tory received his Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Trinity College, University of Toronto in 1975.
Groundwork for the station that would eventually become KEXP began in 1971, started by University of Washington undergraduates John Kean, Cliff Noonan, Victoria (" Tory ") Fiedler, and Brent Wilcox.
* R. B. Clark, William Gifford: Tory Satirist ( New York: Columbia University Press, 1930 ).
* Princeton Tory, Princeton University
Henry Marshall Tory ( January 11, 1864 – February 6, 1947 ) was the first president of the University of Alberta ( 1908 – 1928 ), the first president of the Khaki University, the first president of the National Research Council ( 1928 – 1935 ) and the first president of Carleton College ( 1942 – 1947 ).
Awarded one of McGill's earliest doctoral degrees in science, Tory did not himself become a researcher but was the principal founder of several universities-University of British Columbia, University of Alberta and Carleton University-and of the Alberta Research Council and the National Research Council.
Tory Theatre at the University of Alberta Tory returned to Alberta in 1919, and resumed his position as President of the University of Alberta.
* Restoration Oxford ', ' Tory Oxford ', and ' James II and the Catholic challenge in The History of the University of Oxford, IV: Seventeenth-Century Oxford ( ed.

Tory and ;
In his comment on these laws Steele sounds all the usual notes of current Whig propaganda, ranging from a criticism of the Tory peace to an attack on the dismissal of Marlborough ; ;
Then he launches into an attack on the Tory ministers, whom he calls the `` New Converts '' ; ;
From him it has descended continuously, through fifteen individuals, the title being increased to an Earldom in 1784 ; and in 1876 William Nevill 5th Earl ( b. 1826 ), ( d. 1915 ) an indefatigable and powerful supporter of the Tory Party, was created 1st Marquess of Abergavenny.
There were two Tory ministries under James II ; the first led by Lord Rochester, the second by Lord Belasyse.
The word " Tory " derives from the Middle Irish word tóraidhe ; modern Irish tóraí: outlaw, robber or brigand, from the Irish word tóir, meaning " pursuit ", since outlaws were " pursued men ".
Mobbing the Tories by American Patriots in 1775-76 ; the Tory is about to be tarred and feathered
In Canada, the term " Tory " may describe any member of the Conservative Party of Canada, its predecessor party the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada, or any similar affiliated conservative provincial party ; the term is frequently used in contrast to " Grit ", a shorthand for the Liberal Party of Canada.
Prominent One Nation Conservatives in the contemporary party include Kenneth Clarke, Malcolm Rifkind and Damian Green ; they are often associated with the Tory Reform Group and the Bow Group.
* October 12 – Battle of Tory Island: A British Royal Navy squadron under Sir John Borlase Warren prevents French Republican ships commanded by Jean-Baptiste-François Bompart landing reinforcements for the Society of United Irishmen on the Donegal coast ; Irish leader Wolfe Tone is captured and later dies of wounds.
After Macmillan's death in 1986 Powell said " Macmillan was a Whig, not a Tory ... he had no use for the Conservative loyalties and affections ; they interfered too much with the Whig's true vocation of detecting trends in events and riding them skilfully so as to preserve the privileges, property and interests of his class ".
* Feiling, Keith ; A History of the Tory Party, 1640 – 1714, 1924 online edition
* Feiling, Keith ; The Second Tory Party, 1714 – 1832, 1938 online edition
As Prime Minister Peel issued the Tamworth Manifesto ( 1834 ) during his brief first stint in office, leading to the formation of the Conservative Party out of the shattered Tory Party ; in his second stint he repealed the Corn Laws.
At length, the King consented to fill the House of Lords with Whigs ; however, without the knowledge of his cabinet, he circulated a letter among Tory peers, encouraging them to desist from further opposition, and warning them of the consequences of continuing.
Walpole was impeached by the House of Commons and found guilty by the overwhelmingly Tory House of Lords ; he was then imprisoned in the Tower of London for six months and expelled from Parliament.
As an example of the antipathy toward Mulroney, his former riding fell to the Bloc by a lopsided margin ; the Tory candidate finished a distant third, with only 6, 800 votes — just a few votes shy of losing his electoral deposit.
Thatcher once told Friedrich Hayek: " I know you want me to become a Whig ; no, I am a Tory ".
According to the tale, a local colonial tavern ( sometimes said to be established by town father Isaac Storm ) had run out of wooden stirrers during the war and started using the quills of roosters ' tailfeathers to stir their drinks ; a more embellished version holds that the roosters were plundered from nearby Tory farmers.
When William left for Holland in July Marlborough was one of the Lords Justices left running the country in his absence ; but striving to reconcile his close Tory connections with that of the dutiful royal servant was difficult, leading Marlborough to complain – " The King's coldness to me still continues.
: For twenty years junior minister in a Tory government, he became the most successful of Whig Foreign Secretaries ; though always a Conservative, he ended his life by presiding over the transition from Whiggism to Liberalism.
Barham was a Tory politically ; yet he was a lifelong friend of the liberal Sydney Smith.

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