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W. H. Millington
Best known for helping preserve traditional stories from the Philippines, this early 20th-century folklorist appears in print mainly through a handful of collected tales. His surviving work gives modern readers a small but vivid window into Visayan storytelling.
1 Audiobook
Philippine Folk-Tales
by Clara Kern Bayliss, Laura Estelle Watson Benedict, Fletcher Gardner, Berton L. (Berton Lewis) Maxfield, W. H. Millington
About the author
Very little biographical information about W. H. Millington was easy to confirm from reliable online sources, which is often the case with lesser-known contributors to older folklore collections. What can be confirmed is that he is credited as a co-author of "Visayan Folk-Tales" with Berton L. Maxfield, material that appeared in the Journal of American Folk-Lore and was later gathered into Philippine Folk-Tales.
That places him among the early collectors and transmitters of Philippine oral tradition in English-language print. Although the record is thin, his contribution helped preserve folktales that might otherwise have remained much harder for later readers to discover.
Because trustworthy sources available here did not provide a clear personal biography or confirmed portrait, it is safer to focus on the work itself rather than speculate about his life.