Background
In 1932 he married Anne Catherine Barstow, daughter of George Lewis Barstow and Enid Lillian Lawrence.
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Harold Anthony Caccia
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Eton College; Trinity College.
Career
He played cricket for Oxfordshire in the Minor Counties Championship between 1928 and 1938. Caccia entered the diplomatic service in 1929 and was posted to Peking (Beijing) 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 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 United States of America. He was sent to Washington to repair relations badly damaged by the 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 nationalized 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. In 1961, he became Permanent Under-Secretary of State, an office he held until 1965.
He was Provost of Eton 1965-1978 and President of Master Control Console in 1973-1974.
He was knighted in 1950, and was created a life peer with the title Baron Caccia, of Abernant in the County of Breconshire, on 11 May 1965.
Achievements
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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. Caccia was appointed a Bailiff Grand Cross of the Order of the Hospital of Street John of Jerusalem, a Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order and a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Street Michael and Street George.
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October 31, 1990 (aged 85) -
Nationality
United Kingdom
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Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order; Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George Order of St Michael and St George; Royal Victorian Order; Grand Cross
The Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George is a British order of chivalry founded on 28 April 1818 by George, Prince Regent, later King George IV, while he was acting as Prince Regent for his father, King George III.The Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George is a British order of chivalry founded on 28 April 1818 by George, Prince Regent, later King George IV, while he was acting as Prince Regent for his father, King George III.