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Robert Kirk Tory

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Name
  
Robert Tory

Children
  
James Cranswick Tory

Robert Kirk Tory was a Methodist minister in Nova Scotia.

Tory was born in Port 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 MLA
  • Henry Marshall Tory (1864–1947) a McGill University and Cambridge University grad, mathematics professor, founding president of the University of Alberta and the National Research Council of Canada
  • John Alexander Tory Sr. (1869-1950) father of John S. D. Tory, grandfather to John A. Tory and great-grandfather of John Tory (former Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario leader)

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