Isaac Gulliver

Isaac Gulliver

The name of three generations of Gullivers from Semington in Wiltshire, England during the 18th and early 19th century; Isaac Gulliver (1745-1822) was so successful as a smuggler on the south coast that he came to control its length from Lymington on The Solent in Hampshire, through Dorset to Torbay on the Devon coast and became known as "King of Smugglers".

He owned several farms and large houses in Dorset, among them 'Howe Lodge', in Kinson, Bournemouth, a purpose built smuggling stronghold, which had a secret room only accessible through a door 10 feet up a chimney. It was here that he allegedly covered his face in white powder and lay in an open coffin. When the customs men arrived to arrest him his wife told them he had died during the night and showed them the 'body'. When they went away, Gulliver got out of the coffin and escaped.

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