On 13th December 1916, he was among three members of the Institute of Metals (alongside Sir George Beilby and Thomas Turner) to propose the election of Georgina Elizabeth Kermode.
He died on 17 April 1920 at his London residence, Buckingham Street, Strand, shortly after relinquishing the chair.
Huntington built it over the next two years and in April 1910 he flew it for the first time, on the Aero Club's flying ground at Eastchurch on the Isle of Sheppey in Kent.
[5][6] Huntington experimented with a number of improvements over the next few years, notably the substitution of a Gnome rotary engine, and it was still flying well into 1914.
Due to the First World War, the aeroplane was dismantled and the framework used to make a rose pergola at the back of Huntingdon's country house in Yelstead in Kent.