John F. Kennedy in 1961 Born in
Pachmarhi, British India, Caccia 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. Caccia entered the diplomatic service in 1929 and was posted to Peking and then to Athens and London where, in 1936, he became assistant private secretary to
Anthony Eden. He was back in Athens early in World War II, but was then attached to the staff of
Harold Macmillan, Britain's representative at Allied headquarters in North Africa. The
Greek Civil War once again saw him in that country, and by 1945 his services earned him recognition as a
Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG). His daughter Clarissa married
David Pryce-Jones, son of
Alan Pryce-Jones and Thérèse Fould-Springer ("Poppy"). In 1961, he became
Permanent Under-Secretary of State, an office he held until 1965. He was
Provost of Eton 1965-78 and President of the
Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) in 1973–74. He was knighted in 1950, and was created a
life peer with the title
Baron Caccia,
of Abernant in the County of Brecknock, on 11 May 1965. Caccia was appointed a
Bailiff Grand Cross and Lord Prior of the
Order of the Hospital of St John of Jerusalem, a Knight Grand Cross of the
Royal Victorian Order and a Knight Grand Cross of the
Order of St Michael and St George. Lord Caccia was a Knight of the
International Order of St. Hubertus. Caccia died in
Builth Wells, Wales. == Arms ==