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Among other bequests were: The famous Tattershall Castle in Lincolnshire and Bodiam Castle in Sussex?to the British nation; his collection of Oriental treasures???to the Victoria and Albert Museum in Kensington (London) ; portrait of General Lawrence by Sir Joshua Reynolds?to the Victoria Memorial Hall, Calcutta; his famous Napoleonic library, containing hundreds of books?to Oxford University, or, if refused, to the British Museum; his confidential papers relating to his resignation of the Viceroyalty in India (over a feud with the then General Sir Herbert Horatio Kitchener)?to the British Museum, with injunction "to exercise sound discretion...
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