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My first visit to Falmouth Cemetery for a while, Blip followers will know this as one of my favourite places to walk. I headed for this grave marker, one of my favourites, here it is again with a bit more information.

British (Irish) Aristocrat, Fourth Earl of Desart, Author. William Ulick O'Connor Cuffe was born in London, the eldest son of the third Earl of Desart, whose family had been granted land in County Cork by Queen Elizabeth the First.
On the 29th. April 1881, at Christ Church in Down Street, Mayfair, he married British (Irish) Senator. Ellen Odette Bischoffsheim.
After a short illness, he died on his yacht, off the Cornish coast near Falmouth on 15 September 1898

Odette died in Waterloo Road in Dublin, on 29 June 1933 but was buried next to her husband in Falmouth, where her funeral service was conducted according to the Jewish rites.

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