Harold Anthony Caccia, Baron Caccia, (21 December 1905
Pachmarhi
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It is widely known as ''Satpura ki Rani'' ("Queen of Satpura"), ...
, India – 31 October 1990
Builth Wells
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, Wales) was a British diplomat.
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
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,
Oxfordshire
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.
He was educated at
Summer Fields School
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...
,
Eton College
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and
Trinity College, Oxford
(That which you wish to be secret, tell to nobody)
, named_for = The Holy Trinity
, established =
, sister_college = Churchill College, Cambridge
, president = Dame Hilary Boulding
, location = Broad Street, Oxford OX1 3BH
, coordinates ...
and won a
Blue
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at
rugby union
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, playing at
centre for Oxford in the
Varsity match
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in 1926. He played
cricket
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for
Oxfordshire
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in the
Minor Counties Championship
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between 1928 and 1938. 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
Robert Anthony Eden, 1st Earl of Avon, (12 June 1897 – 14 January 1977) was a British Conservative Party politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1955 until his resignation in 1957.
Achieving rapid prom ...
. He was back in Athens early in World War II, but was then attached to the staff of
Harold Macmillan
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, Britain's representative at Allied headquarters in North Africa. The
Greek Civil War
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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. He was sent to Washington to repair relations badly damaged by the
Suez crisis
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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
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of Egypt. In the years that followed, he was instrumental in restoring and nurturing the "special relationship" between London and Washington.
His daughter Clarissa married
David Pryce-Jones
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Early life
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, son of
Alan Pryce-Jones and Thérèse Fould-Springer ("Poppy").
In 1961, he became
Permanent Under-Secretary of State, an office he held until 1965. He was
Provost of Eton
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Militar ...
1965-78 and President of the
Marylebone Cricket Club
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(MCC) in 1973–74.
He was knighted in 1950, and was created a
life peer
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with the title Baron Caccia, ''of
Abernant in the
County of Brecknock'', on 11 May 1965.
Caccia was appointed a
Bailiff
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Grand Cross and Lord Prior of the
Order of the Hospital of St John of Jerusalem, a Knight Grand Cross of the
Royal Victorian Order
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and a Knight Grand Cross of the
Order of St Michael and St George
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It is named in honour ...
. Lord Caccia was a Knight of the
International Order of St. Hubertus.
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