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'''Otway Cuffe, 1st Earl of Desart''' (25 November 1737 – 9 August 1804) was an [[Anglo-Irish]] peer and lawyer.
==Biography==
Desart was the second son of [[John Cuffe, 1st Baron Desart]] by his second wife, Dorothea Gorges. He was educated at [[Christ Church, Oxford]]. He was a barrister and became a member of the [[Inner Temple]] in 1756. On 25 November 1767 he succeeded his elder brother, [[John Cuffe, 2nd Baron Desart]], in his title, and assumed his seat in the [[Irish House of Lords]].<ref name="Lodge">Edmund Lodge, [https://books.google.com/books?id=VYcUAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA140 ''The Genealogy of the Existing British Peerage''] (Saunders and Otley, 1838), p.140.</ref> Desart served as [[Mayor of Kilkenny]] between 1771 and 1772 and again between 1779 and 1780. On 6 January 1781 he was created '''Viscount Desart''', of Desart in the County of Kilkenny, in the [[Peerage of Ireland]]. He was further honoured when he was made '''Earl of Desart''' and '''Viscount Castlecuffe''', also titles in the Peerage of Ireland, on 4 December 1793.<ref name="Lodge"/> Following the implementation of the [[Acts of Union 1800]], Desart was elected as one of the original 28 [[List of Irish representative peers|Irish representative peer]]s, and attended the [[House of Lords]] until his death four years later.
He married Lady Anne Browne, daughter of [[Peter Browne, 2nd Earl of Altamont]] and Elizabeth Kelly, on 18 August 1785. Together they had three children. He was succeeded by his eldest son, [[John Otway Cuffe, 2nd Earl of Desart|John Otway Cuffe]].<ref name="Lodge"/>
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