Lemuel Gulliver

Lemuel Gulliver

Lemuel Gulliver is the protagonist of the novel "Gulliver's Travels", created by Jonathan Swift in 1726.

Fictional biography

According to the Swift's novel, Gulliver was born in Nottinghamshire, where his father had a small estate; the Gulliver family is said to have originated in Oxfordshire, however. He studied for three years at Cambridge's Emmanuel College, leaving to become an apprentice to an eminent London surgeon; after four years, he left to study at the University of Leiden, a prominent Dutch medical school. He also educated himself in navigation and mathematics.

Prior to the voyages whose adventures are recounted in the novel, he traveled less remarkably to the Levant, the East Indies and West Indies.


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