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
Ashbel Green Gulliver Ashbel Green Gulliver Ashbel Green Gulliver (November 23, 1897, Connecticut - July 3, 1974, Hanover, New Hampshire) was the Dean of Yale Law School from 1940 to 1946. His nickname was "Peyl"—from ashpail. Gulliver went to Groton School for high school. He received a B.A. from Yale University in 1919, where he was Secretary of the Elizabethan Club and a member of the Wolf's Head secret society. Gulliver graduated with an LL.B. from Yale Law School in 1922. He was the class valedictorian. While at Yale Law School, he was on the Yale Law Journal and served as its secretary.