lieutenant governor Methodist minister
Tory was born in Portuguese Shoreham, Nova Scotia in 1838 to parents ♂Henry Tory (1793-1881) and Ann Dieckhoff (1792-1867), Tory married to Anorah Ferguson (1835-1931), they had three sons and started a political family spanning Nova Scotia and Ontario:.
James Cranswick Tory (1864–1944) Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia and Liberal Modern Language Association
Henry Marshall Tory (1864–1947) a McGill University and Cambridge University graduate, mathematics professor, founding president of the University of Alberta and the National Research Council of Canada
John Alexander Tory Senior (1869-1950) father of John South. Doctorate. Tory, grandfather to John A. Tory and great-grandfather of John Tory (former Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario leader).
