Colonial Despatches

Cuffe served as the Under Secretary of State for the Colonies briefly in 1852.1

Cuffe succeeded in the earldom at the early age of two, after the untimely death of his father.2 He served as a Conservative member of Parliament for Ipswich in 1842 and representative peer for Ireland from 1846 until 1865,3 when he died from the effects of an accidental fall.4

• 1. Cracoft's Peerage: The Complete Guide to the British Peerage & Baronetage, Desart, Earl of (1, 1793-1934), Cracoft's Peerage.
• 2. Sir Bernard Burke, A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire Volume 42, Part 1 (London: Harrison, 1880), 364.
• 3. Cracoft's Peerage: The Complete Guide to the British Peerage & Baronetage, Desart, Earl of (1, 1793-1934), Cracoft's Peerage.
• 4. Sir Bernard Burke, A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire Volume 42, Part 1 (London: Harrison, 1880), 364.