Thomas Shorthalls

Thomas Shortalls, or Shorthals (c.1370–1445) was an Irish municipal official and judge of the fifteenth century.

He was probably born in Kilkenny city,

Thomas is first heard of as clerk to the city of Dublin, and then became Sheriff of Dublin City (the title then was Bailiff) in 1406. He served two further terms as Sheriff, in 1414 and 1424. In the same year he was made Constable of the Dublin wool staple (the centralised system in the port of Dublin for regulation of the wool trade), jointly with Richard Bone. He was Mayor of Dublin in 1420–21. In 1426 he was named as one of the founders of the Dublin Shoemakers Guild.

In 1431 he was appointed a Baron of the Court of Exchequer (Ireland), at a salary of 20 marks per annum. and his wife Alice during their stay in England in 1410, which suggests that he had at the least more legal knowledge than most Barons. but he was sitting as a Baron again by 1442. Clynton is known to have spent his later career as Collector of Customs for Dublin and Drogheda. and died two years later.