William Ulick O'Connor Cuffe, 4th Earl of Desart (10 July 1845 – 15 September 1898).

The other, Captain Otway Cuffe went on to be mayor of Kilkenny and a notable person with the community.

[citation needed] Desert was also a literary man who wrote fifteen novels during his life.

[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.