English: A wall mounted memorial to the memory of Sir w:Thomas Rant (1604-1671) inside the Parish church of Saint Margaret in the village of Thorpe Market, Norfolk. Thomas Rant was born in 1604 and became a prominent lawyer and politician in 1660. He was educated at Norwich admitted to Caius College, Cambridge on 1 May 1619 at the age of 15. In 1619 he was admitted to Gray’s Inn to practise common law. He was the member of Parliament for Norwich in the Convention Parliament. On the 24 July 1660 he was knighted by Charles II. Rant died in 1671 at the age of 67. Rant was the son of William Rant MD of Norwich, Norfolk. He married Mary Burwell, a daughter of Edmund Burwell of Woodbridge, Suffolk. Arms: Rant (Ermine, on a fess sable three lions rampant or) (Burke, Sir Bernard, The General Armory, London, 1884, p.839) impaling Burwell (Or, a chevron ermine between three bur (oak) leaves proper) (canting arms) (Burke, Sir Bernard, The General Armory, London, 1884, p.151 "Burwell of Woodbridge, Suffolk").