Rustat is buried in the chapel of Jesus College, Cambridge where there is a monument to him by the studio of Grinling Gibbons. This bears an inscription to Rustat's belief that giving away as much as one is able in life can bring one closer to God in death, and records that he died at the age of 87 on 15 March 1693 (Old Style). Benefactions and legacy In later life Rustat became an important benefactor to a number of colleges of the University of Cambridge, in particular to Jesus College where his father had been a student. In January 1667 he created the first fund for the purchase of books at the Cambridge University Library with a donation of £1,000. The books purchased from the fund were to be bound in the same way with Rustat's arms stamped in gold on the cover, kept in one place in the library, and recorded in a vellum book. Rustat created a scholarship at Jesus College for the orphan sons of Anglican clergymen. Among the Rustat scholars were poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge and clergyman Henry Venn. The Tobias Rustat's Charity supports vicars in Leicestershire. Rustat commissioned three statues of Stuart kings from the workshop of Grinling Gibbons in the 1670s and '80s. These were the standing statue of Charles II at the Royal Hospital Chelsea, an equestrian statue of Charles II in Windsor Castle and the statue of James II, now in Trafalgar Square. The last was commissioned for the Palace of Whitehall, apparently at the same time as the standing Charles II, and the two works might have been intended as pendant pieces. Jesus College, Cambridge owns a 1682 portrait of Rustat painted by Godfrey Kneller (previously attributed to Lely). This used to hang in the senior combination room but has been placed in storage. The college commemorated him in the naming of Rustat Road in Cambridge. The Rustat Conferences, founded in 2009, were named after him; in 2020 they were renamed the Jesus College Conferences. Rustat is commemorated by a small, late 19th-century stone statue at the Old Schools, the original site of the University Library. Rustat monument A white marble memorial monument to Rustat in the chapel of Jesus College is attributed to the studio of Grinling Gibbons, with parts carved by Arnold Quellin and others less certainly by John Nost. The college proposed that this memorial should be