Lemuel Gulliver moon, Phobos, the crater Gulliver is named after him, while the crater Grildrig has the name given to Gulliver by the farmer's daughter Glumdalclitch in Brobdingnag, because of Swift's 'prediction' of the two then undiscovered Martian moons, which his Laputan astronomers had discovered. Lemuel Gulliver Lemuel Gulliver () is the fictional protagonist and narrator of "Gulliver's Travels", a novel written by Jonathan Swift, first published in 1726. According to Swift's novel, Gulliver was born in Nottinghamshire c. 1661, where his father had a small estate; the Gulliver family is said to have originated in Oxfordshire, however. He supposedly studied for
Henrietta Maria Gulliver Henrietta Maria Gulliver Henrietta Maria Gulliver (1866–1945) was an Australian painter. She was a founding member of the Twenty Melbourne Painters Society. Gulliver was born Henrietta Maria Shanklin in 1866. From 1906 through 1911 she studied at the National Gallery School. Gulliver and her husband George Ekins Gulliver were farmers, growing lavender and sassafras on their farm at Cheltenham, Victoria. Fellow artists who visited the farm included Clara Southern, Hilda Rix Nicholas, Elsie Barlow and Alice Marian Ellen Bale. Gulliver was a founding member of the Melbourne Society of Women Painters and Sculptors and the Twenty Melbourne Painters Society. She