Harold Caccia, Baron Caccia

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1905 – 1990

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Who was Harold Caccia, Baron Caccia?

Harold Anthony Caccia, Baron Caccia, GCMG GCVO GCStJ was a British diplomat.

He was educated at Eton College and Trinity College, Oxford and won a Blue at rugby union, playing at centre for Oxford in The Varsity Match in 1926. He played cricket for Oxfordshire in the Minor Counties Championship between 1928 and 1938. In 1932 he married Anne Catherine Barstow, daughter of George Lewis 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 Ambassador to Austria from 1951 to 1954, and from 1956 to 1961 Ambassador to the USA. He was sent to Washington to repair relations badly damaged by the Suez crisis of 1956.

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Born
Dec 21, 1905
Nationality
  • United Kingdom
Education
  • Eton College
Died
Oct 31, 1990

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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