Frank Cyril Tiarks


Frank Cyril Tiarks OBE was an English banker.

Family

He was a son of Henry Frederick Tiarks, a banker, and wife Agnes Morris, paternal grandson of Johann Gerhard Tiarks, Chaplain of the Duchess of Kent, and wife Emily Phipps, daughter of Josiah Phipps, and great-grandson of Johann Gerhard Tiarks and wife Christine Dorothea Ehrentraut.

Biography

Educated on HMS Britannia 1887–89, and served as midshipman in the Royal Navy 1889–94. Resigned his commission following the death of his elder brother, to join his father in business. Among his appointments were a directorship of the Bank of England ; a partnership in J. Henry Schröder & Co.; a partnership in the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company ; and High Sheriff of Kent for 1927. See http://www.tiarks.co.uk for genealogy information.
Served in World War I, 1914-18 under Sir William Reginald Hall, Director of Naval Intelligence, in Room 40 Admiralty, as Lieut.-Cmdr.
Of German descent himself, like his wife, he was also listed as a member of the Anglo-German Fellowship, of the British Union of Fascists and in Hitler's 'Black Book'.

Marriage and issue

Tiarks married in Hamburg on 18 November 1899 Emmie Marie Franziska Brödermann of Hamburg, Germany, daughter of Eduard Matthias Brödermann, merchant, and wife Ramona Luisa Clara Ignacia Störzel ; paternal granddaughter of Carl Matthias Brödermann, a merchant, married firstly in Havana on 16 March 1828 Anna Oom, and second wife Marianne Kunhardt and maternal granddaughter of Heinrich Eduard Störzel and wife María Ramona Redo Balmaseda ; and great-granddaughter of Johann Hinrich Brödermann, Bürger and shipbroker, and wife Anna Senglemann, Georg Wilhelm Kunhardt and wife Anna Maria Schultz and Diego Redo and wife María Francisca Balmaseda.
His granddaughter, Henrietta Tiarks, The Dowager Duchess of Bedford, is the widow of the fourteenth Duke of Bedford. He is also first cousin third removed of Mark Phillips.