Thom's Irish Who's Who/Desart, Earl of

DESART, Earl of, 1793; Visct. Desart, 1781, Visct. Castle-Cuffe, 1793; Baron of Desart, 1733 (Irld.); Baron Desart of Desart (U.K., 1909), Hamilton John Agmondesham Cuffe, 5th Earl; K.P. (1920), P.C. (1913), K.C.B. Civ. (1898), C.B. (1894), B.A., Camb.; H.M.L., Co. Kilkenny; late R.N.; Barrister, Inner Temple, 1872; Bencher, Inner Temple, 1905; Sec. to Judicature Acts Comm., 1877; Assist. Solicitor to the Treasury, 1878-1894; Solicitor to the Treasury, Queen's Proctor, 1894-1909, and Director of Public Prosecutions, 1894-1908; represented Gt. Britain at N. Sea Conference in Paris, 1904; British Plenipotentiary at the London International Naval Conference, 1908-9; appointed a British Member of the International Court of Arbitration at the Hague, 1910; Chairman of the Sleeping Sickness Committee, 1913-14; Chairman of Prize Claims Committee, 1915; second son of Otway, 3rd Earl, and Lady Elizabeth (d. 1898), third dau. of 1st Earl Cawdor; b. 30th Aug., 1848: s. his brother. 15th Sept., 1898; m. 19th July, 1876, Lady Margaret Joan, dau. of 4th Earl of Harewood, and has issue two daus. Res.: 2 Rutland Gardens, S.W.; Desart Court, Kilkenny. Clubs: Travellers', and M.C.C., London; Kildare Street, Dublin.