[1] He was born at Westminster, London and died at Sudbury, Suffolk.
[2] He was educated at Eton College and at Trinity College, Cambridge, though the directory of Cambridge University alumni does not state that he emerged with a degree.
[2] As a cricketer, he played as a right-handed middle-order batsman and appeared three times in the Eton v Harrow match.
[3] Tollemache became a banker, based at Bury St Edmunds in Suffolk.
In the First World War, he served as a captain in the Suffolk Regiment's Territorial Force and was mentioned in dispatches.