Robert Kirk 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: