Conservative Party (Great Britain)
Conservative Party (Great Britain)
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Variants
Conservative and Unionist Party (Great Britain) Conservative Party (Gt. Brit.)
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Earlier Established Forms
Sources
found: Conservative Party (UK)--Wikipedia Web site, Oct. 29, 2004 (Conservative Party (UK); descended from the Tory Party and its members are still commonly referred to as Tories; the current formal name, registered with the UK Electoral Commission but rarely used outside Scotland and Northern Ireland, is The Conservative and Unionist Party; the formal name is a vestige from the 1912 merger with the Liberal Unionist Party)
found: Tory Web site, Oct. 29, 2004 (In the mid-nineteenth century the Tory Party was rechristened the Conservative Party but its members are still popularly known as Tories)
found: Answers.com WWW Site, 8 June 2006: (Scottish Unionist Party (Unionist Party), existed betweeen 1912 and 1965; when it was subsumed into the UK Conservative Party)
Editorial Notes
- [The following headings for earlier names are valid AACR 2 headings: Unionist Party (Great Britain); Conservative and Unionist Party (Great Britain)]
Change Notes
1982-03-10: new
2008-06-11: revised
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