{{Short description|English merchant and collector of folklore}} {{Use dmy dates|date=September 2019}} '''Michael Aislabie Denham''' (1801<ref name="census">''1841 England Census'', ''1851 England Census''</ref> – 10 September 1859) was an English merchant and collector of folklore.<ref>{{cite journal |title=Mr. Michael Aislabie Denham |journal=Gentleman's Magazine, or Monthly Intelligencer |date=1859 |page=539 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dvZfAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA539 |accessdate=27 June 2018 |publisher=Edward Cave |language=en}}</ref>
==Life== A native of Gainford, County Durham,<ref name="census"/> Denham was in business at Kingston-upon-Hull in the early part of his life. Ultimately he settled as a general merchant at Piercebridge, near Gainford, where he died on 10 September 1859.<ref name="DNB">{{cite DNB|wstitle=Denham, Michael Aislabie|volume=14}}</ref>
==Works== Denham collected local lore. His works were:<ref name="DNB"/>
* ''A Collection of Proverbs and Popular Sayings relating to the Seasons, the Weather, and Agricultural Pursuits, gathered chiefly from oral tradition'', London, 1846, printed by the Percy Society. * ''The Slogans, and War and Gathering Cries of the North of England'', 1850, and with additions, Newcastle upon Tyne, 1851. * ''A Collection of Bishoprick Rhymes, Proverbs, and Sayings'', to which he afterwards added four tracts of the same kind, completing the last about 1858. * ''Cumberland Rhymes, Proverbs, and Sayings'', in four parts, the last of which appeared in 1854. * A similar work relating to Westmorland, in two parts, 1858. * ''Roman Imperial Gold Coin'', a description of a coin of the Emperor Maximus [Durham (?) 1856], under the pseudonym "Archæus". * ''Folklore of the North'', in six parts, the last appearing in 1856. * ''Folklore, or a Collection of Local Rhymes, Proverbs, Sayings, Prophecies, Slogans, &c., relating to Northumberland, Newcastle-on-Tyne, and Berwick-on-Tweed''; Richmond, Yorkshire, 1858. Limited to fifty copies. * ''Minor Tracts on Folklore'', to the number of twenty, starting about 1849 and ending about 1854. * ''A Classified Catalogue of the Antiquarian Tomes, Tracts, and Trifles'', referring to the works Denham had edited himself, 1859.
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