Earl of Desart

Earl of Desart was a title in the Peerage of Ireland. It was created in 1793 for Otway Cuffe, 1st Viscount Desart. He had already succeeded his elder brother as third Baron Desart in 1767 and been created Viscount Desart, in the County of Kilkenny, in the Peerage of Ireland in 1781. He was also made Viscount Castlecuffe in the Peerage of Ireland at the same time as he was granted the earldom.^[1] He later sat in the House of Lords between 1800 and 1804 as one of the 28 original Irish representative peer. Lord Desart was the younger son of John Cuffe, who represented Thomastown in the Irish House of Commons between 1715 and 1727. In 1733 he was raised to the Peerage of Ireland as Baron Desart, in the County of Kilkenny.^[2]

The first Earl was succeeded by his son, the second Earl. He sat as

The family seat was Desart Court, County Kilkenny, in the Republic of Ireland. The manor house itself was burnt down in the early 1920s as a result of an IRA attack.

Barons Desart (1733)

• John Cuffe, 1st Baron Desart (died 1749)
• John Cuffe, 2nd Baron Desart (1730–1767)^[4]
• Otway Cuffe, 3rd Baron Desart (1737–1804) (created Viscount Desart in 1781 and Earl of Desart in 1793)

Earls of Desart (1793)

• Otway Cuffe, 1st Earl of Desart (1737–1804)
• John Otway Cuffe, 2nd Earl of Desart
  (1788–1820)
• John Otway O'Connor Cuffe, 3rd Earl of Desart (1818–1865)
• William Ulick O'Connor Cuffe, 4th Earl of Desart (1845–1898)
• Hamilton John Agmondesham Cuffe, 5th Earl of Desart (1848–1934)

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