Philip Morant

(1700-1770)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Morant, Philip, 1700-1770 NRA: Morant, Philip (1700-1770) Historian of Essex Rector of St Mary's Colchester DNB: Morant, Philip (1700–1770), historian and Church of England clergyman LBT ID: PhMoran1770 VIAF ID: 17572300 LOC ID: no90014685	B/BAP: 1700-10-06 DIED: 1770-11-25
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Educated at Pembroke College, Oxford, and Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, he was rector of St Mary-at-the-Walls, Colchester (1738) and a considerable antiquary and historian.
REFERENCES TO Philip Morant: William Field, Memoirs of the Life, Writings, and Opinions of the Rev. Samuel Parr, LL.D.; with Biographical Notices of many of his Friends, Pupils, and Contemporaries. 2 vols (London: Henry Colburn, 1828) Ch. IX. 1776-1777 Found 1: ¶ 7