John Cuffe, 1st Baron Desart (died 26 June 1749) was an

Anglo-Irish Anglo-Irish people () denotes an ethnic, social and religious grouping who are mostly the descendants and successors of the English Protestant Ascendancy in Ireland. They mostly belong to the Anglican Church of Ireland, which was the establis ...

politician and peer. He was the son of Agmondesham Cuffe and his wife, Anne Otway. He was educated at

Trinity College, Dublin , name_Latin = Collegium Sanctae et Individuae Trinitatis Reginae Elizabethae juxta Dublin , motto = ''Perpetuis futuris temporibus duraturam'' (Latin) , motto_lang = la , motto_English = It will last i ...

. In 1708 he was High Sheriff of County Kilkenny. He served in the Irish House of Commons as the Member of Parliament for Thomastown between 1715 and 1727. On 10 November 1733 he was raised to the Peerage of Ireland as Baron Desart, of Desart in the County of Kilkenny, and assumed his seat in the Irish House of Lords. He was succeeded in his title by his eldest son from his second marriage,

John Cuffe John Alexander Cuffe (26 June 1880 – 5 May 1931) was an Australian-born English first-class cricketer who played more than 200 times for Worcestershire between 1903 and 1914, having previously made a single appearance for New South Wales. Aft ...

.Edmund Lodge
''The Genealogy of the Existing British Peerage''
(Saunders and Otley, 1838), p.140. His second son,

Otway Cuffe Captain Otway Cuffe (11 January 1853 – 3 January 1912) was twice mayor of Kilkenny and a notable person in Kilkenny, founding businesses and organisations to profit the local people. Background Born the Honourable Otway Frederick Seymour Cuffe ...

, was made

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 Kilke ...

in 1793.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Desart, John Cuffe, 1st Baron Year of birth unknown 1749 deaths Alumni of Trinity College Dublin 18th-century Anglo-Irish people Barons in the Peerage of Ireland Peers of Ireland created by George II Irish MPs 1715–1727 High Sheriffs of County Kilkenny Mayors of Kilkenny Members of the Irish House of Lords Members of the Parliament of Ireland (pre-1801) for County Kilkenny constituencies