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.

She was the daughter of John St. Aubyn, 1st Baron St. Levan of St. Michaels Mount and Lady Elizabeth Clementina Townshend.

[4][5] Dedicated to ensuring a strong Irish identity in the area Cuffe worked with his sister-in-law Lady Desart.

[8] He was also President of the Irish Industrial Association [7] Cuffe was a friend of William Morris whom he had met on a trip to Iceland.

He believed in the Arts and Crafts movement and tried to implement it in the projects which he drove.

[6] He was also a friend and supporter of Standish James O'Grady and helped him found the weekly radical conservative paper The All-Ireland Review and run it between 1900 and 1906.