Editing Thomas Tollemache (section)

==Military career==
[[File:Helmingham Hall 01.jpg|thumb|[[Helmingham Hall]], Tollemache's family home]]

According to his own account, Tollemache spent several years travelling in Europe before returning to England in 1668, when he attended [[Queens' College, Cambridge]], followed by legal training at the [[Inner Temple]]. Details of his early military career are unclear; by 1673 he was based in [[Germany]] during the [[Franco-Dutch War]], where he served with [[John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough|John Churchill]].{{sfn|Wauchope|2004}}

In 1678, he was commissioned into the [[English Army]] at the rank of [[captain]] in the [[Coldstream Guards|Coldstream Regiment of Foot Guards]], with which he served with the [[Tangier Garrison]], along with [[Percy Kirke]] and [[Charles Trelawny]]. Although he lost his commission after fighting a duel, in 1685 he was appointed [[lieutenant-colonel]] in the newly formed [[Royal Fusiliers]]. In 1686, he resigned in protest at the admission of Catholic officers by [[James II of England|James II]], and became a leading member of the "Treason Club", which supported armed intervention by the Protestant [[William III of England|William of Orange]] on behalf of James' daughter [[Mary II of England]].{{sfn|Wauchope|2004}}

He was also associated with the Association of Protestant Officers, whose members included Trelawny, Churchill and Kirke, all of whom opposed James.{{sfn|Holmes|2009|p=136}} In early 1688, he joined one of the regiments in the [[Scots Brigade|Anglo-Scots Brigade]], a long established mercenary unit in the [[Dutch Republic|Dutch]] army and accompanied [[William III of England|William of Orange]] during the November 1688 [[Glorious Revolution]]. He was made [[List of governors of Portsmouth|governor of Portsmouth]] and colonel of the Coldstream Guards, as well as being elected [[Member of Parliament|MP]] for [[Malmesbury (UK Parliament constituency)|Malmesbury]] in 1689.{{sfn|Hayton|2002}}

His regiment was posted to [[Flanders]] during the [[Nine Years' War]], seeing action at the [[Battle of Walcourt]] in August 1689. During 1691, he served in [[Williamite war in Ireland|Ireland]] as a [[major general]], fighting at the [[Battle of Aughrim]] and the sieges of [[Siege of Athlone|Athlone]] and [[Siege of Limerick (1691)|Limerick]]. Following the [[Treaty of Limerick]] which ended the war, he returned to Flanders where he took part in the battles of [[Battle of Steenkerque|Steenkirk]] and [[Battle of Landen|Landen]].{{sfn|Wauchope|2004}}