The penultimate viceroy of India may have possessed all the manly virtues extolled in Rudyard Kipling's famous poem "If".

韦维尔乃英国驻印度倒数第二位总督，其品德之高尚，足可包揽鲁德亚德•吉卜林著名诗歌《如果》所赞颂全部人类美德。

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The royal ruler the Nawab of Junagadh, the princely state near Gir Forest, invited Lord Curzon, the viceroy of India, to hunt lions with him.

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Lord Curzon of Kedleston had already successfully fought to save much of India's heritage while he was Viceroy of India from 1899 to 1905, including the Taj Mahal.

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Her friends came from diverse walks of life, ranging from an Iraqi gardener to the Viceroy of India, from a Times correspondent to a battle-scarred tribal warrior, from a mutjahid to a servant from Aleppo.

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