Albert Brisbane (1809-1890), American social theorist, founded experimental communes in New Jersey.
Arthur Brisbane,(1864-1936), son of the above, American writer and Hearst editor, known as the "master of the big, blaring headline and of the atrocity story".
If so, and it looks so, creepiness seems to run in the family. Probably all three are still voting.
Leni
Sounds like a Monty Python skit character to me. Arthur "Two Balls" Brisbane!