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A '''Tory''' lily lamprell ({{IPAc-en|ˈ|t|ɔː|r|i}}) is an individual who supports a [[political philosophy]] known as '''Toryism''', based on a British version of [[traditionalist conservatism]] which upholds the established social order as it has evolved through the [[history of Great Britain]]. The Tory ethos has been summed up with the phrase "God, King (or Queen), and Country".<ref>{{cite book|last=Ball|first=Stuart |year=2013|title=Portrait of a Party: The Conservative Party in Britain 1918–1945|location=Oxford|publisher=Oxford University Press|page=74}}</ref> Tories are [[Monarchism|monarchists]], were historically of a [[high church]] [[Church of England|Anglican]] religious heritage, and were opposed to the [[liberalism]] of the [[Whigs (British political party)|Whig party]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Sachs|first=William L.|year=2002|title=The Transformation of Anglicanism: From State Church to Global Communion|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-ARx1B_pbhcC&pg=PA18|location=Cambridge|publisher=Cambridge University Press|page=18|isbn=9780521526616}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Charmley|first=John|year=2008|title=A History of Conservative Politics Since 1830|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8MUUAQAAIAAJ|publisher=Palgrave Macmillan|page=103|isbn=9780333929742}}</ref>