Harold Caccia, Baron Caccia

Harold Anthony Caccia, Baron Caccia of Abernant in the County of Breconshire GCMG GCVO GCStJ ( born December 21, 1905 in Pachmarhi, India, † October 31, 1990 in Builth Wells, Powys, Wales ) was a British diplomat and politician, who other was high Commissioner of the British zone of occupation in Austria, as well as ambassador to the U.S. and 1965 was as a life peer, due to the Life peerages Act 1958 a member of the House of Lords.

Life

Study, cricketers and diplomat

Caccia was born into a family that had immigrated in the 19th century for political reasons from Italy to England. His father worked as a senior official of the British Forestry Commission in India. After he had graduated from the school at Eton College himself, he began a course of studies Philosophy, Politics and Economics (PPE ) at Trinity College and at Queen 's College, 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 1928-1938 also the cricket team of the Oxfordshire countryside. In 1932 he also played for a national team of public service.

After graduating Caccia joined the Foreign Service in 1929 and worked as Third Secretary in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Foreign Office ) worked before he was used as a Third Secretary and latterly as Second Secretary at the Embassy in China 1932-1935. After his return to Britain he was only back 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 the Cabinet Chamberlain, he was first again Second Secretary in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs since 1939 and then First Secretary at the Embassy in Greece, before he in 1941 as First Secretary in turn was used in the Foreign Office. Shortly thereafter, he became an employee on the staff of Harold Macmillan, the British representative on the Allied Headquarters in North Africa, and has held this position until 1945.

Ascent to the ambassador and the House of Lords member

After the war Caccia found various uses in the State Department and was beaten for his services in 1950 Knight Bachelor, and he henceforth the additional name "Sir" led.

In 1950 he was succeeded General John Winterton as High Commissioner of the British zone of occupation in Austria and has held this function in the rank of ambassador until his replacement by Geoffrey Wallinger 1954.

After a renewed use as Deputy Under Secretary in the Foreign Office, he became in 1956 the successor to Roger Makins Ambassador to the United States and held that post until 1961 when he was out, replaced by David Ormsby - Gore, the former Minister of State in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. At the beginning of his tenure as ambassador to the U.S., he began with an improvement of the land affected by the Suez Crisis of 1956 British- American relations. The disruption of relationships began after Britain and France joined an Israeli intervention in Egypt and troops to conquer the Suez Canal sent, since it has previously nationalized the majority of Anglo-French Suez Canal Company ( Compagnie universal du canal maritime de Suez ) by the Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser had come.

After his return from Washington, D.C. Caccia 1961 Employed as a successor of Frederick Millar Undersecretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Permanent Under- Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs ) and maintained this high office until his retirement and his subsequent replacement by Paul Gore- Booth 1965. During his diplomatic career he was honored several times and received, among other things, the Grand Cross of the Order of Saint John, the Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George Knight Grand Cross and the Royal Victorian Order.

Last Caccia was raised by a Letters Patent of May 11, 1965 due to the Life peerages Act 1958 as Life peer with the title Baron Caccia of Abernant in the County of Breconshire in the peerage, and was thus until his death in the House of Lords as Member of.

Baron Caccia 1965 successor of Claude Aurelius Elliott as Provost of Eton College and held that post until his replacement by Martin Charteris, Baron Charteris of Amisfield 1978.