 Tollet was interested in education; in 1685 William Molyneux, a member of the Dublin society wrote to Halley in London mentioning an eleven-year-old girl that he had trained in arithmetic, algebra, geometry and trigonometry.He also ensured the education of his own daughter.In 1718 he purchased a country home at Betley Hall, Staffordshire for his retirement but died there in 1719.