Lord Dudley Stuart

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

Stuart was the youngest son of John Stuart, 1st Marquess of Bute and Frances Coutts.

In 1820, he was admitted to Christ Church, Oxford.

On July 20, 1824, he married Princess Christine Bonaparte (d. 1847), daughter of Lucien Bonaparte, and had one son.

He was a member of the Whittington Club.

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

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