Harold Caccia, Baron Caccia

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Harold Anthony Caccia, Baron Caccia GCMG GCVO GCStJ (* December 21, 1905 in Pachmarhi , India ; † October 31, 1990 in Builth Wells , Powys , Wales ) was a British diplomat and politician who among other things was High Commissioner of the British Zone of Occupation in Austria as well Ambassador to the United States and became a member of the House of Lords in 1965 when Life Peer under the Life Peerages Act 1958 .

Life

University degree, cricketer and diplomat

Caccia came from a family who immigrated to England from Italy for political reasons in the 19th century . His father was a senior official in the British Forest Service in India. After he himself schooling at Eton College had graduated, he began studying in the study program Philosophy, Politics and Economics (PPE) at Trinity College and at the Queen's College of the University of Oxford . In addition to his studies and his subsequent employment Caccia played as a member of the team of Eton College in 1924 and the Eton Ramblers 1925-1942 cricket and was during this period 1928 to 1938 and the cricket team of the county of Oxfordshire on. In 1932 he also played for a public service team.

After completing her studies, Caccia entered the foreign service in 1929 and initially worked as Third Secretary in the Foreign Office , before he was employed as Third Secretary between 1932 and 1935 and finally as Second Secretary at the Embassy in the Republic of China . On his return to Britain he was again only Second Secretary at the Foreign Office, and then from 1936 to February 1938 Deputy Private Secretary Anthony Eden , the then Foreign Minister ( Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs ) in the government of Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain .

After Eden had resigned from Chamberlain's cabinet, he was first second secretary in the Foreign Office and then from 1939 first secretary at the embassy in Greece , before he was again employed as first secretary in the Foreign Office in 1941. Shortly thereafter, he became a member of the staff of Harold Macmillan , the British representative at Allied Headquarters (AFHQ for short) in the western Mediterranean, and held this position until 1945.

Promotion to ambassador and upper house member

After the war, Caccia found various uses in the State Department and was knighted for his services in 1950 Knight Commander of the Order of St. Michael and St. George , which is why he continued to use the suffix "Sir".

In 1950 he succeeded General John Winterton as High Commissioner of the British Zone of Occupation in Austria and held this position with the rank of ambassador until he was replaced by Geoffrey Wallinger in 1954.

After a renewed appointment as Deputy Undersecretary in the Foreign Office, he became Ambassador to the USA in 1956 (as the successor to Roger Makins ) and held this office until 1961, when he was replaced by David Ormsby-Gore , the previous Minister of State in the State Department. At the beginning of his tenure as ambassador to the United States, he began to improve the strained British-US-American relations by the Suez crisis of 1956. The disruption of relations began after Great Britain and France joined an Israeli intervention in Egypt and sent troops to conquer the Suez Canal , as it had previously been used to nationalize the British-French-majority Suez Canal Society ( Compagnie universelle du canal maritime de Suez ) by Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser had come.

Upon his return from Washington, DC , Caccia succeeded Frederick Millar as Permanent Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs in 1961 and held this post until his retirement and subsequent replacement by Paul Gore-Booth 1965. In the course of his diplomatic career he received several awards. In 1957 he was accepted as a Knight Commander in the Royal Victorian Order , in 1959 made the Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St. Michael and St. George and in 1961 the Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order. He was also Bailiff Grand Cross of the Order of Saint John .

Most recently, Caccia was raised to a Life Peer by a letters patent dated May 11, 1965 based on the Life Peerages Act 1958 with the title Baron Caccia , of Abernant in the County of Breconshire, and was thus a member of the House of Lords until his death .

Lord Caccia succeeded Claude Aurelius Elliott as Provost of Eton College in 1965 and held this office until he was replaced by Martin Charteris, Baron Charteris of Amisfield in 1978.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Entry in Cricket Archive
  2. ↑ Entry in Cricket Archive
  3. ↑ Entry in Cricket Archive
  4. ^ William Roger Louis: Ends of British Imperialism: The Scramble for Empire, Suez, and Decolonization , 2006, pp. 284, 320, 328, 337, ISBN 1845113470
personal data
SURNAME Caccia, Harold, Baron Caccia
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Caccia, Harold Anthony, Baron Caccia (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British diplomat and politician
DATE OF BIRTH December 21, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH Pachmarhi , India
DATE OF DEATH October 31, 1990
Place of death Builth Wells , Powys , Wales