author
W. H. Millington
Best known as a contributor to early collections of Philippine folklore, this little-documented writer helped preserve traditional Visayan stories for later readers. The surviving record is sparse, which gives the work itself an added sense of mystery.
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
W. H. Millington is remembered chiefly through Philippine Folk-Tales, a public-domain collection that brings together several early studies of oral tradition from the Philippines. In that volume, Millington appears alongside Berton L. Maxfield, Clara Kern Bayliss, Fletcher Gardner, and Laura Watson Benedict.
The clearest trace of Millington's individual contribution is the section on Visayan folk tales, credited to Berton L. Maxfield and W. H. Millington and originally published in the Journal of American Folklore in the early 1900s. That work helped record stories that had long been passed along by word of mouth, preserving them in print for future generations.
Beyond those publication credits, reliable biographical information about Millington is hard to confirm from the sources I found. Even so, the surviving work points to a writer and collector connected with one of the most enduring efforts to document Philippine storytelling traditions in English.