Harold Caccia

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Foreign Secretary
Home, Butler, Gordon Walker, Stewart
Preceded bySir Frederick Millar
Succeeded bySir Paul Gore-Booth
Personal details
Born21 December 1905
Died31 October 1990 (aged 84)

Harold Anthony Caccia, Baron Caccia,

GCStJ (21 December 1905 – 31 October 1990) was a British diplomat who rose to become Permanent Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs
from 1962 to 1965.

Biography

Caccia with President John F. Kennedy in 1961

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

Minor Counties Championship between 1928 and 1938.[4] In 1932 he married Anne Catherine Barstow, daughter of Sir George Barstow
and Enid Lillian Lawrence.

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

Suez crisis of 1956. The breakdown in mutual confidence arose when Britain and France joined an Israeli invasion of Egypt and sent military forces to capture the Suez Canal, which had been nationalised by President Gamal Abdel Nasser of Egypt. In the years that followed, he was instrumental in restoring and nurturing the "special relationship" between London and Washington.[5]

His daughter Clarissa married David Pryce-Jones, son of Alan Pryce-Jones and Thérèse Fould-Springer ("Poppy").[6]

In 1961, he became

Provost of Eton 1965-78 and President of the Marylebone Cricket Club
(MCC) in 1973–74.

He was knighted in 1950, and was created a

Order of the Hospital of St John of Jerusalem, a Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order and a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George. Lord Caccia was a Knight of the International Order of St. Hubertus
.

Caccia died in Builth Wells, Wales.

Arms

Coat of arms of Harold Caccia
Crest
An Eagle wings elevated Sable gorged with a Collar paly Argent and Gules resting the dexter claw on a Roundel Argent charged with a Fleur-de-lys Gules
Escutcheon
Per bend barry of six Gules and Argent and Or in base a Lion's Gamb erased of the first
Supporters
On either side a Lion Gules supporting between the fore paws a Staff at the head a Fleur-de-lys Or
Motto
Seguo ed inseguo [9]

Notes

  1. ^ https://ancestors.familysearch.org/en/KZLX-C8D/anthony-mario-felix-caccia-1869-1962
  2. ^ Usborne, Richard (1964). A Century of Summer Fields. Methuen. p. 139.
  3. .
  4. ^ "Player profile: Harold Caccia, Baron Caccia". CricketArchive. Retrieved 24 May 2011.
  5. ^ "Harold Anthony Caccia". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. 2004. Retrieved 10 November 2015.
  6. ^ "'Musical' Men And Money | Standpoint". standpointmag.co.uk. Retrieved 14 April 2018.
  7. ^ "No. 43648". The London Gazette. 11 May 1965. p. 4573.
  8. ^ "No. 43654". The London Gazette. 18 May 1965. p. 4861.
  9. ^ "Life Peerages - C". cracroftspeerage.co.uk.

References

Diplomatic posts
Preceded by
British Ambassador to Austria

1951–1954
Succeeded by
Preceded by
British Ambassador to the United States

1956–1961
Succeeded by
Government offices
Preceded by
Sir Frederick Hoyer Millar
Permanent Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs
1962–1965
Succeeded by
Academic offices
Preceded by
Claude Aurelius Elliott
Provost of Eton

1965–1978
Succeeded by
Martin Charteris