John Otway Cuffe, 2nd Earl of Desart (20 February 1788 – 23 November 1820) was an Anglo-Irish politician and peer.
His father was the second son of John Cuffe, 1st Baron Desart, a High Sheriff of County Kilkenny, by his second wife, Dorothea Gorges.
[1] He was educated at Eton College (1802), Christ Church, Oxford (1805) and the University of Edinburgh (1807).
[2] Desart served as Member of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for Bossiney, in Cornwall, between 13 December 1808 and May 1817.
[3] On 7 October 1817, Catherine O'Connor (c. 1799–1874), the daughter and co-heiress of Maurice Nugent O'Connor of Mount Pleasant, King's County, and Maria Burke, daughter of Sir Thomas Burke, Bt.