Harold Anthony Caccia, Baron Caccia, was a British diplomat who rose to become Permanent Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs from 1962 to 1965.
Occupation
cricketer, diplomat, politician, rugby union player
Position held
member of the House of Lords, ambassador of the United Kingdom to the United States, ambassador of the United Kingdom to Austria, Permanent Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs
Citizenship
United Kingdom, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Born
May 21, 1905, December 21, 1905
Died
October 31, 1990
Overview
Harold Anthony Caccia, Baron Caccia, (21 December 1905 – 31 October 1990) was a British diplomat who rose to become Permanent Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs from 1962 to 1965.
Biography
Born in Pachmarhi, British India, 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, Oxfordshire. The Caccia family was of Italian heritage.
He was educated at Summer Fields School, Eton College and Trinity College, Oxford and won a Blue at rugby union, playing at centre for Oxford in the Varsity match in 1926. He played cricket for Oxfordshire in the Minor Counties Championship between 1928 and 1938. In 1932 he married Anne Catherine Barstow, daughter of Sir George Barstow and Enid Lillian Lawrence.
