" Later in the speech Powell said, " I was born a Tory, am a Tory and shall die a Tory.

Bentham was born in Houndsditch, London, into a wealthy family that supported the Tory party.

William Augustus Bowles was born into a wealthy Maryland Tory family, enlisting with the Maryland Loyalists Battalion at age 14 and becoming an ensign in Royal Navy by age 15.

* Tory Epps, former NFL defensive lineman for the Atlanta Falcons and New Orleans Saints, was born and raised in Uniontown.

You have to understand that from when I went to school and from when I was born all we ever knew was conservative, Tory, right-wing government.

William Arthur Waldegrave, Baron Waldegrave of North Hill, PC ( born 15 August 1946 ), is an English Conservative politician who served in the Cabinet from 1990 until 1997 and is a Life Member of the Tory Reform Group.

Kenneth Wilfred Baker, Baron Baker of Dorking, CH, PC ( born 3 November 1934 ), is a British politician, a former Conservative MP and a Life Member of the Tory Reform Group.

John Howard Tory, ( born May 28, 1954 ) is a Canadian businessman, political activist, former leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario, former Member of Provincial Parliament and broadcaster.

Tory was born in Toronto, Ontario, and is the son of John A. Tory, president of Thomson Investments Limited and a director of Rogers Communications.

Steve Burton was born in Indianapolis, Indiana, the son of Tory Burton, an optician, and father Jack Burton ( after whom he is named ), now divorced.

Charles Darwin was born during the Napoleonic Wars and grew up in their aftermath, a conservative time when Tory dominated government closely associated with the established Anglican Church of England repressed Radicalism, but when family memories recalled the 18th century Enlightenment and a multitude of Non-conformist churches held differing interpretations of Christianity.

* Salvatore " Tory " Belleci ( born 1972 ), American filmmaker known for his role in MythBusters

The son of Robert Bruce, at one time Tory Member of Parliament for Clackmannan, he was born in Kennet in that county and educated at Loretto, Eton and Oriel College, Oxford.

Salvatore Paul " Tory " Belleci ( born October 30, 1970 ) is a filmmaker and model maker.

Sir Cresswell Cresswell PC KC ( 20 August 1794 – 29 July 1863 ), born Cresswell Easterby, was an English lawyer, judge and Tory politician.

* Chris Patten, Baron Patten of Barnes ( born 1944 ), British Tory politician, last British Governor of Hong Kong

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.

Defoe comments on the tendency to attribute tracts of uncertain authorship to him in his apologia Appeal to Honour and Justice ( 1715 ), a defence of his part in Harley's Tory ministry ( 1710 – 14 ).

George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen ( 28 January 1784 – 14 December 1860 ), styled Lord Haddo from 1791 to 1801, was a British politician and landowner, successively a Tory, Conservative and Peelite, who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1852 until 1855.

* 1914 – World War I: The British super-dreadnought battleship HMS Audacious ( 23, 400 tons ), is sunk off Tory Island, north-west of Ireland, by a minefield laid by the armed German merchant-cruiser Berlin.

John Dryden ( a Tory ), the first Poet Laureate, produced in 1682 Mac Flecknoe, subtitled " A Satire on the True Blue Protestant Poet, T. S.

For the next 17 years until 1801 ( and again from 1804 to 1806 ), Pitt, the Tory, was Prime Minister in the same sense that Walpole, the Whig, had been earlier.

It is located 301. 3km, or 162. 7 nmi west of the island of Soay, St Kilda, Scotland, and 423. 2 kilometres ( 263. 0 mi ), or 228. 5 nmi, north-west of Tory Island, County Donegal, Ireland.

Trinity alumni include six British prime ministers ( all Tory or Whig / Liberal ), British King George VI, several heads of other nations, physicists Isaac Newton and Niels Bohr, philosophers Ludwig Wittgenstein and Bertrand Russell ( whom it expelled before reaccepting ), and Soviet spies Kim Philby, Guy Burgess, and Anthony Blunt.

William's father was Robert Pitt ( 1680 – 1727 ), the eldest son of Governor Pitt, who served as a Tory Member of Parliament from 1705 to 1727.

During the American Revolutionary War, the Continental Congress, and some state governments ( on their own initiative ), issued privateering licenses, authorizing " legal piracy ", to merchant captains in an effort to take prizes from the British Navy and Tory ( Loyalist ) privateers.

* Charles Murray, Lord Murray ( 1866 – 1936 ), Scottish Tory politician, lawyer and judge

Introduced by Geoffroy Tory ( 1530 ), the apostrophe was used in place of a vowel letter to indicate elision ( as in l ' heure in place of la heure ).

For example, in the lead-up to the 1979 election when Clark's riding was merged into the riding of another Tory MP during a redistribution of ridings, the other MP refused to step aside ( even though Clark was now party leader ), forcing Clark to run in nearby Yellowhead.

From Jacobite to Conservative: Reaction and Orthodoxy in Britain c. 1760 – 1832 ( Cambridge University Press, 1993 ), does not see Pitt as a Tory

* Wilkinson, D. " The Pitt-Portland Coalition of 1794 and the Origins of the ' Tory ' party " History 83 ( 1998 ), pp. 249 – 64

), How Tory Governments Fall.

In the phrase " One-nation Tory " of " one-nation Toryism " it originated with Benjamin Disraeli ( 1804-1881 ), who served as the chief Conservative spokesman and Prime Minister after 1852.

Some think it may have been built by John Defoe ( or DeVoet ), a Tory who was imprisoned in 1776, escaped, fought on the side of the British and Hessian forces at the Battle of Bennington, was captured, escaped again, and settled in Canada.

Though a few Liberal Unionists like Goschen formally joined the Conservatives ( by becoming member of the exclusive Tory Carlton Club ), the party still continued to maintain a separate identity and to raise their own funds.

Other contributors to the fund included Simon Heffer, Norris McWhirter ( a Scots Tory ), Peter Clarke, Lord Bell, Gyles Brandreth and Gerald Howarth ( Hamilton's co-plaintiff in the BBC action ).

The Tory Hill Meeting House in the adjacent town of Buxton inspired her book ( and later play ), The Old Peabody Pew ( 1907 ).

With Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford ( who was then the secretary of the treasury and not a peer ), he produced the Tory Examiner, and Arbuthnot made their acquaintance and began to provide " hints " to them.

* " Matters for Argument " ( Review of G. Barwick, A Radical Tory ), The Age, 12 August 1995.

* 1908 – Roger Tory Peterson, American ornithologist and author ( d. 1996 )

Conservatives also objected to Burke's support of the American Revolution, which the Tory Samuel Johnson, for example, attacked in " Taxation No Tyranny ".

Although he said English Canada had a negligible conservative influence, subsequent writers claimed that loyalists opposed to the American Revolution brought a Tory ideology into Canada.

* 1970 – Tory Belleci, American television personality

* 1982 – Tory Lane, American porn actress and model

Mobbing the Tories by American Patriots in 1775-76 ; the Tory is about to be tarred and feathered

The term Tory or " Loyalist " was used in the American Revolution to include those who remained loyal to the British Crown.

* July 28 – Roger Tory Peterson, American naturalist and artist ( b. 1908 )

The term " Lynch's Law " ( and subsequently " lynch law " and " lynching ") apparently originated during the American Revolution when Charles Lynch, a Virginia justice of the peace, ordered extralegal punishment for Tory acts.

* Roger Tory Peterson ( 1908 – 1996 ) American naturalist, ornithologist, artist, and educator

" An attempt during the American Revolution by the British and their Tory allies to drive the settlers out was thwarted when they were defeated by the settlers.

During the American Revolution the south part of Hempstead was primarily Tory, while the north part, having been settled by Yankees, supported the revolution.

For many decades a popular historic spot in Wilkesboro was the " Tory Oak ", a large oak tree from which Colonel Benjamin Cleveland, a well-known Wilkes County patriot during the American Revolutionary War, hung Loyalist militia leaders who supported the British King and opposed American independence from Britain.

During the American Revolution, Loyalists from Newport were exiled in Glocester to Stephen Keach's farm, including Thomas Vernon, a Tory from Newport, who described Glocester residents in 1776 as:

Depiction of American Patriots preparing to tar and feather a Tory during the American Revolution

British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and fellow Tory politicians, American president Ronald Reagan, and the British Royal Family were the most prominent targets.

Tory Dent ( Victorine Dent ) ( 1958 – December 30, 2005 ) was an eminent American poet, art critic, and commentator on the AIDS crisis.

Fort Niagara served as the Loyalist base in New York during the American Revolutionary War for Colonel John Butler and his Butler's Rangers, a Tory militia in the command of the British Army.

Historically, Canadian conservatism has been derived from the Tory tradition, with a distinctive concern for a balance between individual rights and collectivism, as mediated through a traditional pre-industrial standard of morality – which has never been as evident in American conservatism.

None of this lineage denies that Tory traditions of communitarianism and collectivism had existed in the British North American colonies since the Loyalist exodus from the American colonies between 1776 and 1796.