Tory (British Political Party)
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 of Great Britain and Ireland from the 17th to the early 19th centuries.
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... The Tories became associated with repression of popular discontent after 1815 ... But later, the Tories underwent a fundamental transformation under the influence of Robert Peel, who was an industrialist rather than a landowner ...
... The Tories became associated with repression of popular discontent after 1815 ... But later, the Tories underwent a fundamental transformation under the influence of Robert Peel, who was an industrialist rather than a landowner ...
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