William Cuffe, 4th Earl of Desart

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Personal details
Born10 July 1845 (1845-07-10)
Died15 September 1898 (1898-09-16)
NationalityBritish
Spouse(s)Maria Emma Georgina Preston
1871-1878
Ellen Cuffe, Countess of Desart 1881-1898

William Ulick O'Connor Cuffe, 4th Earl of Desart (10 July 1845 – 15 September 1898). He succeeded to the title of 6th Baron Desart, 4th Viscount Desart and 4th Earl of Desart on 1 April 1865

Background

Captain Otway Cuffe went on to be mayor of Kilkenny and a notable person with the community.[citation needed
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Activities

Desert was also a literary man who wrote fifteen novels during his life. His most successful works were mystery thrillers.[2]

  • Only a Woman's Love (1869), Herne Lodge (1888) and The Little Chatelaine (1889)
  • Beyond These Voices (1870) was set against the background of the Fenian Rising.

Other titles included:[3]

  • Children of Nature: A Story of Modern London (1878)
  • The Honourable Ella (1879)
  • Lord and Lady Piccadilly (1887)
  • Mervyn O'Connor and other tales (1880)
  • Grandborough (1894)
  • The raid of the "Detrimental" (1897)
  • Kelverdale (1879)
  • Helen's vow (1891)
  • Love and pride on an iceberg : and other tales (1887)


He owned a total of 9,000 in Kilkenny and Tipperary.[4]

Family

Lord Desart married Maria Emma Georgina Preston, daughter of Captain Thomas Henry Preston and Georgina Geneviève Louisa Campbell, on 1 June 1871.[1] They had one daughter, Kathleen. They divorced in 1878.[5]

He then married Ellen Cuffe, Countess of Desart, daughter of Henri Louis Bischoffsheim on 27 April 1881. Lord Desart died in 1898 at age 53 after a short illness on his yacht, and was succeeded in the earldom by his brother, Hamilton.[6] The Countess of Desart went on to become a politician in her own right and died in June 1933, aged 75.

References

  1. ^ a b thepeerage.com William Ulick O'Conner Cuffe, 4th Earl of Desart
  2. ^ "Cuffe family history". Retrieved 6 October 2013.
  3. ^ "Books by 4th Earl of Desart". Worldcat search. Retrieved 6 October 2013.
  4. ^ The great landowners of Great Britain and Ireland
  5. ^ "The Earl and the Actor.; Criminal Love of a Countess. a Divorce Suit in an English Court of Justice--Why the Earl of Desart Got Rid of His Wife--Intercepted Love-Letters from an Actor to Her Ladyship--a Divorce Granted on the Ground of Adultery" (PDF). The New York Times. 25 May 1878. Retrieved 2 April 2019.
  6. ^ "The Earl of Desart Dead" (PDF). The New York Times. 17 September 1898. Retrieved 2 April 2019.
Peerage of Ireland
Preceded by Earl of Desart
1865–1898 		Succeeded by
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