Background
He was the youngest son of John Stuart, 1st Marquess of Bute, and his second wife, Frances Coutts, daughter of the banker Thomas Coutts.
He was the youngest son of John Stuart, 1st Marquess of Bute, and his second wife, Frances Coutts, daughter of the banker Thomas Coutts.
Christ Church.
In 1820, he was admitted to Christ Church, Oxford. They had one son, Paul Amadeus Francis Coutts Stuart, who died unmarried in 1889. 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.
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12th United Kingdom Parliament.
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He was a member of the Whittington Club and the Literary Association of the Friends of Poland.
