Philip Morant FSA (6 October 1700 – 25 November 1770) was an English clergyman, author and historian.

He was educated at John Roysse's Free School in Abingdon (now Abingdon School)[2] and Pembroke College, Oxford,[3] eventually taking his master's degree at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge in 1729.

Ordained in 1722, he began his association with the county of Essex with a curacy at Great Waltham near Chelmsford in 1722.

The Morant Club was formed in Colchester in 1909 to investigate local archaeology, but was dissolved in 1925.

London: Smith, Elder & Co. Genealogical information retrieved from the papers of Thomas Astle (1735-1803), Keeper of the records.