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Lord Caccia GCMG GCVO

Chairman: July 1965 - July 1972


Provost of Eton College (1965-1978); Diplomatic in the Foreign Office (1929-1965); Head of the Diplomatic Corps (1964-1965), Permanent Under-Secretary of State (1961-1965), Ambassador to the United States of America (1956-1961), Deputy Under-Secretary of State for Economic Affairs (1954-1956), Ambassador to Austria (1951-1954), Chief Clerk to the Foreign Office (1949-1950), Minister, Athens Embassy  (1945-1949), Political Advisor to general officer commanding British land forces in Greece (1944), appointed to the staff of the resident minister at Algiers in North Africa, under Harold Macmillan (1943), Athens (1939-1941), Assistant Private Secretary to the Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden (1936-1938) postings to Peking, Athens and London (1929-1936); Chairman to the Council of Management (1965-1975), The Ditchley Foundation.

Photo - © National Portrait Gallery, London.

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Participants of the Ditchley Foundation internship programme in 2021

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