Educated at Guy's Hospital, where he was House Physician. He was then appointed Resident Medical Officer to the Leeds General Infirmary, and in 1893 entered the service of the Metropolitan Asylums Board. In 1897 he was appointed Medical Superintendent of the North-Eastern Fever Hospital, and in 1905 he was appointed Principal Medical Officer to the Metropolitan Asylums Board, devoting his whole time to his duties, except during the Great War, when he was resident head of the Belgian Refugee Camp at Alexandra Palace, a service for which he was awarded the OBE. Of his work at the Metropolitan Asylums Board, Lauriston Shaw, one of the medical members, wrote somewhat fully to the *Lancet*, 1921, Sept 3rd. His earlier work for the Board was carried out solely in the infectious fever service, but this did not prevent him from acquiring practical knowledge of, and maintaining a keen interest in, the various other departments of medical work - mental diseases, eye diseases, tuberculosis, venereal diseases, etc, which have been gradually added to the Board's activities. It was characteristic of Cuff's energy that when the Board was first entrusted with the administration of institutions for the treatment of tuberculosis, he spent some portion of his well-earned vacation as locum-tenens superintendent of a sanatorium. At the height of his useful career Cuff met with a tragic end. When spending an August holiday with his family at Burnham Overy, on the north coast of Norfolk, he was drowned in a brave attempt to save the lives of his two young daughters who had got into difficulties while bathing. His portrait is in the College collections, and an enlarged photograph hangs in one of the committee rooms of the Metropolitan Asylums Board on the Victoria Embankment, EC4. Publications: *Lectures on Medicine to Nurses*, 1896; 7th ed, 1920. *Practical Nursing, including Hygiene and Dietetics* (with Isla Stewart - *see Dict. Nat. Biog.*), 1899 ; 6th ed (with W T G Pugh), 1924.