Huntington John Francis

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Biografie:
JOHN FRANCIS HUNTINGTON
1893- 1960
J. F. Huntington died on October 6, 1960, and was first elected to the A.C. in February 1928, resigning in 1940, but being reelected in April 1944· His first Alpine season was in 1922; the Valais, and particularly Zermatt, was his favourite area, and among his climbing companions may be mentioned Haskett-Smith, Scott Tucker and C. G. Markbreiter.
He was educated at Marlborough and Exeter College, Oxford. In the First World War he served in France, Salonica and Egypt. In 1919 he joined the Inland Revenue, where he was mainly concerned with Death Duties. A man of wide culture, with a most retentive memory for what he had read, he was a witty conversationalist in a circle of close friends. By nature, however, he was self-effacing, but his influence on his acquaintances has been fully recognised (see, for example, the notices in The Times of October 11 and 14, 1960 ). He made a considerable reputation as the translator of the works of the French political philosopher, Bertrand de Jouvenel, and the latter, in a noteworthy tribute in The Times Literary Supplement of October 21, acknowledges his indebtedness to Huntington.
He was a devoted member of the Reform Club, of which he had qeen Chairman twice; where he lived for the last years of his life; and where he died.
T. S. BLAKENEY •
Quelle: Alpine Journal Volume 66, 1961, Seite 184


Geboren am:
1893
Gestorben am:
06.10.1960