Harold Caccia, Baron Caccia

Harold Anthony Caccia, Baron Caccia, GCMG, GCVO, GCStJ (21 December 1905 – 31 October 1990) was a British diplomat. He was educated at Eton College and Trinity College, Oxford. He 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 ... more

Harold Anthony Caccia, Baron Caccia, GCMG, GCVO, GCStJ (21 December 1905 – 31 October 1990) was a British diplomat. He was educated at Eton College and Trinity College, Oxford. He 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. less