John Stewart Donald Tory (1903 – August 28, 1965) was a Toronto lawyer and founder of the law firm Torys.Tory was born in Toronto, Ontario to John Alexander Tory, Sr. (1869-1950) and Abigail Georgina Buckley (1875-1961). His father, John Alexander Tory, Sr., was the youngest of three children and was a company director who became the head of the Ontario division of Sun Life Assurance Company.Tory's great-grandfather, James Tory, was a soldier in the 71st Scottish Regiment. He was captured and held as a prisoner of war during the American Revolution. He later settled in Nova Scotia in the 1780s. Wikipedia