Regency Personalities Series-Lord Dudley Stuart
Regency Personalities Series
In my attempts to provide us with the details of the Regency, today I continue with one of the many period notables.
Lord Dudley Stuart
11 January 1803, London – 17 November 1854
Lord Dudley Stuart
Lord Dudley Stuart 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.
A critic of the Metropolitan Police, he suggested a reduction of the strength of the force in 1853.
