M.G.Brumbaugh (1862-1930) was a highly energetic and innovative educationalist in Philadelphia and Puerto Rico; he became Governor of Pennsylvania 1915-19 and was nominated as a presidential candidate in 1916. He wrote books on religion, geography and history and was editor of Lippincott schoolbooks. His doctoral thesis at the University of Pennsylvania was ‘A Study of the Poetry of John Donne’ (reported in W.F.Melton, The Rhetoric of John Donne’s Verse, 1906, p. 130).