Tollemache was educated at Uppingham School and Peterhouse, Cambridge, graduating with his BA in 1850.
[1] He followed his father's vocation and was ordained as a deacon in Manchester in 1849 and as a priest in Lincoln in 1850.
Felix Thomas Tollemache, the second son of the same William Talmash named above and Catherine Gray.
He remarried on 22 February 1869, to Dora Cleopatra Maria Lorenza de Orellana, the daughter of Colonel Ignacio Antonio de Orellana y Revest, an officer in the Spanish army.
He had at least five children from his first marriage: His imagination took flight when he named the many children from his second marriage: The Tollemache family's names are parodied in Book 1, Episode 4 of James Joyce's novel Finnegans Wake, as Helmingham Erchenwyne Rutter Egbert (HERE) Crumwall Odin Maximus Esme Saxon (COMES) Esa Vercingetorix Ethelwulf Rupprecht Ydwalla Bentley Osmund Dysart Yggdrasselmann (EVERYBODY).