W. H. Millington

W. H. Millington is a little-documented figure whose name survives mainly through "Visayan Folk-Tales," a collection published in the Journal of American Folk-Lore with Berton L. Maxfield. That work was later gathered into the public-domain volume Philippine Folk-Tales alongside related collections by other contributors.

Because reliable biographical information about Millington is hard to confirm, it is safest to describe him through the work itself: he was one of the people involved in recording and presenting Visayan stories for English-language readers during a period when scholars and collectors were publishing folklore from across the Philippines. His contribution helped preserve stories that might otherwise have remained much less accessible.

Today, Millington is remembered less as a widely profiled literary personality than as a name attached to an important folklore source. For listeners interested in folktales, mythology, and the history of oral storytelling, that modest but lasting role is what makes his work worth returning to.