Lord Dudley Stuart
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Lord Dudley Coutts Stuart(11 January 1803, London – 17 November 1854,Stockholm) was a British politician. He was the youngest son ofJohn Stuart, 1st Marquess of Bute,and his second wife, Frances Coutts, daughter of the bankerThomas Coutts.
In 1820, he was admitted toChrist Church, Oxford.
On 20 July 1824, he married Princess Christine Bonaparte (1798–1847), daughter ofLucien Bonaparteby his first wife,Christine Boyer,and sister of thePrincess Gabrielli.They had one son, Paul Amadeus Francis Coutts Stuart, who died unmarried in 1889.[1]
He was a member of theWhittington Cluband the vice-president (and later the president) of theLiterary Association of the Friends of Poland.
AWhigand subsequentlyLiberal,he was a passionate advocate ofPolishindependence,[2]and sympathetic in general to the cause of the Eastern European peoples againstRussia.He receivedLajos Kossuthin England after his exile fromHungary.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 receiveing 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).[3]
A critic of theMetropolitan Police,he suggested a reduction of the strength of the force in 1853.
References
[edit]- ^Lundy, Darryl."Lord Dudley Coutts Stuart".ThePeerage.com.
- ^The Polish Question by R.F.Leslie (Historical Association 1964 London) page 3
- ^"Election Intelligence", Daily News, 20 March 1857, 3383 edition
External links
[edit]- Hansard1803–2005:contributions in Parliament by Lord Dudley Stuart
- 1848 print of Dudley Stuart by Sabina Karnicka,at theMuseum of Warsaw
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