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Why are members of Britain's Conservative Party referred to as the Tories?
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The Conservative Party is descended from the historic Tory Party which was founded in 1678. Due to this lineage the party is still often referred to as the Tory Party, despite having formally adopted the Conservative name.
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information quoted from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservative_Party_%28UK%29
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The Tories were members of two political parties which existed, sequentially, in the Kingdom of England, the Kingdom of Great Britain and later the United Kingdom from the 17th to the early 19th centuries. The first Tories emerged in 1678 in the Kingdom of England, when they opposed the Whig-supported Exclusion Bill which set out to disinherit the heir apparent and future king to be James, Duke of York (who eventually became James II and VII). This party ceased to exist as an organised political entity in the early 1760s, although it was used as a term of self-description by some political writers. A few decades later, a new Tory party would rise to establish a hold on government between 1783 and 1830, with William Pitt the Younger followed by Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool.1
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information quoted from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Tory_Party
please read the two pages to the links to fully understand the name for the party
The Conservative Party is descended from the historic Tory Party which was founded in 1678. Due to this lineage the party is still often referred to as the Tory Party, despite having formally adopted the Conservative name.
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information quoted from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservative_Party_%28UK%29
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The Tories were members of two political parties which existed, sequentially, in the Kingdom of England, the Kingdom of Great Britain and later the United Kingdom from the 17th to the early 19th centuries. The first Tories emerged in 1678 in the Kingdom of England, when they opposed the Whig-supported Exclusion Bill which set out to disinherit the heir apparent and future king to be James, Duke of York (who eventually became James II and VII). This party ceased to exist as an organised political entity in the early 1760s, although it was used as a term of self-description by some political writers. A few decades later, a new Tory party would rise to establish a hold on government between 1783 and 1830, with William Pitt the Younger followed by Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool.1
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information quoted from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Tory_Party
please read the two pages to the links to fully understand the name for the party
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information quoted from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservative_Party_%28UK%29
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Tory_Party
information quoted from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservative_Party_%28UK%29
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Tory_Party
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voted helpful: waulok, lilyloretta
It was derived from the Gaelic word tóraidhe, which means robber, and was the derogatory term that Irish and Scots and Welsh had for the ruling elite of England.
voted unhelpful: lilyloretta
This answer is unhelpful as it provides no sources whatsoever and so could easily just be made up off the top of your head.
Obviously you haven't made it up, but please remember to give sources in future.
Obviously you haven't made it up, but please remember to give sources in future.
Sorry... it came from my linguistics prof - Gudrend Hess - when I was a student. It was during one of the lectures where she was going over derivations of english words from other languages, in particular focussing on words derived from celto-gaelic, and that's one of the examples she used.
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