Family and Education
b. c.1604, 3rd s. of William Rant, MD (d.1627) of Norwich, fellow of Caius, Camb. 1589-96, by Mary, da. of Edward Ward of Bixley. educ. Norwich g.s.; Caius Camb. adm. 1 May 1619, aged 15; G. Inn, entered 1619, called 1629. m. by 1634, Mary, da. of Edmund Burwell of Woodbridge, Suff., s.p. Kntd. 24 July 1660.G. A. Carew, Hundred of Launditch, iii. 457-8; Vis. London (Harl. Soc. xvii), 185.
Offices Held
Bencher, G. Inn 1645; commr. for assessment, Norf. 1657, Aug. 1660–9, Norwich and Lincs. (Kesteven) Aug. 1660–1; j.p. Norf. 1659 – d., 1659 – d., commr. for militia Mar. 1660, dep. lt. Sept. 1660 – d., commr. for corporations 1662–3.
Main residences: Gray's Inn; Thorpe-next-Norwich, Norf.
Volume
Commons 1660-1690
Web Title
RANT, Thomas (c.1604.)
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Oxford 1644
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