Lord Dudley Coutts Stuart (11 January 1803, London – 17 November 1854, Stockholm) was a British politician. He was the youngest son of

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, and his second wife, Frances Coutts, daughter of the banker

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. In 1820, he was admitted to Christ Church, Oxford. On 20 July 1824, he married Princess Christine Bonaparte (1798–1847), daughter of

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by his first wife,

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, and sister of the Princess Gabrielli. They had one son, Paul Amadeus Francis Coutts Stuart, who died unmarried in 1889. He was a member of the Whittington Club and the vice-president (and later the president) of the Literary Association of the Friends of Poland. A Whig and subsequently

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, he was a passionate advocate of

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independence, and sympathetic in general to the cause of the Eastern European peoples against

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. He received Lajos Kossuth in England after his exile from

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. In the election of 1857, Richard Cobden told an anecdote referring to this event:

I will tell you what happened with my knowledge -- it is no breach of confidence to say it. When that illustrious Hungarian was expected in England, after his imprisonment in Turkey, my lamented friend Lord Dudley Stuart -- whose devotion to the cause of these foreign refugees was as unbounded as it was sincere – went down to Southampton to meet Kossuth, and receive him on his arrival. Having to wait a day or two there, and being in the neighbourhood of Broadlands, where Lord Palmerston lives, he went there and saw the noble lord, and received from him a request to bring Kossuth over to Broadlands, to see him. I remember a letter from Lord Dudley Stuart, announcing to me this piece of intelligence with the greatest glee. He was delighted at the opportunity of taking Kossuth over to the Lord Palmerston; and as soon as he arrived he announced to him the pleasing information. To his astonishment he found Kossuth would not accept it. He would not go near Lord Palmerston -- (cheers); and I have got a letter from Lord Dudley Stuart, asking me to use all my influence with Kossuth to induce him to go and call upon Lord Palmerston. He would not do it; and my answer was this, "You may depend upon it, Kossuth knows a great deal more about Lord Palmerston than you do." (Laughter)."Election Intelligence", Daily News, 20 March 1857, 3383 edition

A critic of the Metropolitan Police, he suggested a reduction of the strength of the force in 1853.

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1848 print of Dudley Stuart by Sabina Karnicka
at the

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