Sir Thomas Rant was an English lawyer and politician who sat in the House of Commons

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  in 1660.

Rant was the son of William Rant MD of Norwich

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. He was educated at Norwich under Mr Stonham and admitted to Caius College, Cambridge on 1 May 1619 aged 15. He was admitted at Gray's Inn

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 on 22 February 1619 and practised Common Law in London.

In 1660, Rant was elected Member of Parliament

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 for Norwich

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 in the Convention Parliament. He was knighted on 24 July 1660. He was of Thorpe Market, Norfolk, and was lord of the manor of Wendling, Norfolk in 1663.

Rant died at the age of 67 and was buried at Thorpe.