Meanings of great tory in English

The time was too short before the great Tory austerity wrecking ball swung.

His position at court was strengthened by his friendships with the great Tory statesmen.

It was a great Tory-bashing rant, punctuated by Labour-baiting about its Tammany Hall politics in Glasgow.

He was succeeded in office by Lord Egremont, son of the great Tory, Sir William Wyndam.

With these two great Tory Earls was now united Halifax, the accomplished chief of the Trimmers.

One of the guests was the then Duke of Manchester, an old man and a great Tory.

As time went on, even in the great Tory houses the number of retainers was gradually cut down.

There was no great Tory swing.

A darker and fiercer spirit, Jonathan Swift, the great Tory writer (1667-1745)

A great Tory poet, whose eminent services to the cause of monarchy had been ill requited by an ungrateful Court, boasted that

What I really wanted to tell Gouin was that he was personally very much like the late great Tory, Sir James Whitney.

He was a great country gentleman, a great sportsman, and a great Tory; perhaps the three worst enemies which a country can have.

She shrugged her shoulders, and continued; "Winnington originally was a great Tory; what do you think he was when he died?"

Three great Tory noblemen, Rochester, Nottingham and Leeds, headed the opposition; and they were joined by some who did not ordinarily act with them.

After this great Tory reaction there is nothing to be done now by speeches, and, in all probability, very little that can be effectually opposed.

The favourite companions, however, of the great Tory prelate were, as might have been expected, men whose politics had at least a tinge of Toryism.