Venetia Phair (née Burney was the first person to suggest the name Pluto for the planet discovered by Clyde W. Tombaugh in 1930. At the time, she was 11 years old and lived in Oxford, England. Burney was the great-niece of Henry Madan (1838-1901), Science Master of Eton, who in 1878 had suggested the names Phobos and Deimos for the moons of Mars. Her grandfather Falconer Madan (1851-1935), Librarian of the Bodleian Library of Oxford University, … Wikipedia
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