Sir Edmund Shaa

Edmund Shaa was a London goldsmith who served as Sheriff of London in 1475 and Lord Mayor of London in 1482.

Shaa was apprenticed to a London goldsmith, and after the completion of his apprenticeship he was appointed engraver to the Royal Mint at the Tower of London and Calais. He held that office for the next twenty years starting from 1462.

It is known that Shaa also gave loans to the King Edward IV, and as Mayor he used his prominence to influence the coronation of Richard III, the brother of the king Edward IV.

It is an interesting fact that Sir Edmund Shaa was a character in William Shakespeare’s play Richard III.