Education
He was educated at Abingdon School and Pembroke College, Oxford, eventually taking his master"s degree at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge in 1729.
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Philip Morant
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Ordained in 1722, he began his association with the county of Essex with a curacy at Great Waltham near Chelmsford in 1722. In 1737 he became both the Rector of Street Mary-at-the-Walls, Colchester as well as Rector of Aldham in Essex. During his time in Colchester, Morant wrote The History and Antiquities of Colchester, published in 1748.
And his county history, The History and Antiquities of the County of Essex, published in two volumes between 1763 and 1768.
He also conducted a number of excavations of Roman sites in and around the town. In 1755, Philip Morant was elected to the Fellowship of the Society of Antiquaries of London.
He died in 1770 and is buried at Aldham. The Morant Club was formed in Colchester in 1909 to investigate local archeology, but was dissolved in 1925.
In 1965, The Norman Way Secondary School in Prettygate, Colchester was renamed Philip Morant School and College in his honour.
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