Harold Caccia
Foreign Secretary | Home, Butler, Gordon Walker, Stewart | |
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Preceded by | Sir Frederick Millar | |
Succeeded by | Sir Paul Gore-Booth | |
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Born | 21 December 1905 | |
Died | 31 October 1990 (aged 84) | |
Harold Anthony Caccia, Baron Caccia,
Biography
Born in Pachmarhi, British India, Caccia was the son of Major Anthony Mario Felix Caccia, Conservator of the Imperial Forest Service, and his wife Fanny Theodora Birch, daughter of Azim Salvatore Birch, of Pudlicote House, Charlbury, Oxfordshire. The Caccia family was of Italian heritage.[1]
He was educated at
Caccia entered the diplomatic service in 1929 and was posted to Peking and then to Athens and London where, in 1936, he became assistant private secretary to Anthony Eden. He was back in Athens early in World War II, but was then attached to the staff of Harold Macmillan, Britain's representative at Allied headquarters in North Africa. The Greek Civil War once again saw him in that country, and by 1945 his services earned him recognition on the Birthday Honours List.
Caccia was
His daughter Clarissa married David Pryce-Jones, son of Alan Pryce-Jones and Thérèse Fould-Springer ("Poppy").[6]
In 1961, he became
He was knighted in 1950, and was created a
Caccia died in Builth Wells, Wales.
Arms
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Notes
- ^ https://ancestors.familysearch.org/en/KZLX-C8D/anthony-mario-felix-caccia-1869-1962
- ^ Usborne, Richard (1964). A Century of Summer Fields. Methuen. p. 139.
- ISBN 0356202496.
- ^ "Player profile: Harold Caccia, Baron Caccia". CricketArchive. Retrieved 24 May 2011.
- ^ "Harold Anthony Caccia". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. 2004. Retrieved 10 November 2015.
- ^ "'Musical' Men And Money | Standpoint". standpointmag.co.uk. Retrieved 14 April 2018.
- ^ "No. 43648". The London Gazette. 11 May 1965. p. 4573.
- ^ "No. 43654". The London Gazette. 18 May 1965. p. 4861.
- ^ "Life Peerages - C". cracroftspeerage.co.uk.
References
- "p. 19109 § 191090". Retrieved 19 October 2006.[unreliable source]