Green’s Dictionary of Slang

noisy, bragging; used of someone who wears their hat cocked distinctly to one side; thus n. a noisy event or celebration.

1678		Otway Friendship in Fashion 16: Methinks you look like two as roaring, ranting, tory rory Sparks.
1682		Otway Friendship in Fashion 51: How do’st thou do my little Tory Rory Strumpet, Kiss me, I say Huzzy, Kiss me.
1682		A. Behn City-Heiress 52: Oh some damnd Tory-rory Rogues, you may be sure, to rob a man at his Prayers!
1696		Motteux (trans.) Pantagruelian Prognostications (1927) II 694: Swaggering huff-snuffs, bouncing bullies, [...] tory-rory rakes and tantivy boys.
1714		‘A Ballad on Lord Pelham’s Birth-day’ in Sussex Advertiser 6 Dec. 1802 2/4: Then all ye Northern Freeholders / Come harkwn my story, / And vote for this brave Whig Lord, / Who’ll live like Tory Rory.
1743		Fielding Life of Jonathan Wild (1784) II 176: Those who wore hats fiercely cocked [...] were called Cavaliers and Tory Rory Ranter Boys.
1772		‘The Newsman’s New-Year’s Address’ in Bath Chron. 31 Dec. 3/4: Heav’n keep me from all such noise, / Such tory rory ranting boys!
1802		Northampton Mercury 4 Mar. 2/2: He owned he was educated in Tory-rory principles.
1827		Atlas (London) 8 July 9/2: Britannia, sitting upon the margin of the ocean, out of which emerges Neptune, with a crown of sea-weeds, and sings a tory-rory song about Britain and the Ocean.
a.1790		C. Dibdin ‘The Pleasures of the Chase’ in Collection of Songs II 48: Hark all the tory rory boys, / Making a devil of a noise.
1843		Kendal Mercury 11 Nov. 3/1: Rev. J. Benson [...] has been erecting a neat little cottage [...] and, at the completion which, a sort house-warming or tory-rory was held.
1909		J. Ware Passing Eng. of the Victorian Era 248/2: Tory rory (London, 18 cent. to 1845). Name given to those who wore their hats fiercely cocked.