| Description | Lord Dudley Coutts Stuart (11 Jan 1803–17 Nov 1854, Stockholm) was a British politician. He was the youngest son of John Stuart, 1st Marquess of Bute, and his second wife, Frances Coutts, daughter of the banker Thomas Coutts.
In 1820, he was admitted to Christ Church, Oxford.
On 20 July 1824, he married Princess Christine Bonaparte (1798–1847), daughter of Lucien Bonaparte by his first wife, Christine Boyer, 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 Liberal, he was a passionate advocate of Polish independence, and sympathetic in general to the cause of the Eastern European peoples against Russia. He received Lajos Kossuth in England after his exile from Hungary. In the election of 1857, Richard Cobden told an anecdote referring to this event
A critic of the Metropolitan Police, he suggested a reduction of the strength of the force in 1853 |