Harold Caccia, Baron Caccia

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Harold Anthony Caccia, Baron Caccia, GCMG, GCVO, GCStJ (21 December 1905 – 31 October 1990) was a British diplomat.

Caccia married Anne Catherine Barstow, daughter of George Lewis Barstow and Enid Lillian Lawrence, in 1932.

He was created a life peer with the title Baron Caccia, of Abernant in the County of Breconshire on 11 May 1965. Caccia was appointed a Bailiff Grand Cross of the Order of the Hospital of St John of Jerusalem, a Knights Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order and a Knights Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George.

Caccia was Ambassador to Austria from 1951 to 1954, and from 1956 to 1961 Ambassador to the USA. One year later, he became Permanent Under-Secretary of State, an office he held until 1965. He was Provost of Eton 1965-78.

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Diplomatic posts
Preceded by Bertram Jerram	British Ambassador to Austria 1951–1954	Succeeded by Geoffrey Arnold Wallinger
Preceded by Roger Makins	British Ambassador to the United States 1956–1961	Succeeded by David Ormsby-Gore
Government offices
Preceded by Sir Frederick Hoyer Millar	Permanent Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs 1962–1965	Succeeded by Sir Paul Gore-Booth
Honorary Titles
Preceded by Claude Aurelius Elliott	Provost of Eton 1965–1978	Succeeded by Martin Charteris

Persondata
NAME	Caccia, Harold Anthony
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Baron Caccia
SHORT DESCRIPTION	British diplomat.
DATE OF BIRTH	21 December 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH
DATE OF DEATH	31 October 1990
PLACE OF DEATH