Lord Dudley Stuart

A Whig and subsequently Liberal, he was a passionate advocate of Polish independence,[2] and sympathetic in general to the cause of the Eastern European peoples against Russia.

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.

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.