Frank Cyril Tiarks

Frank Cyril Tiarks OBE (also known as F. C. Tiarks) (9 July 1874 – 7 April 1952) was an English banker.

Family

He was son of Henry Frederick Tiarks (23 December 1832 - 18 October 1911), banker, partner in J. Henry Schröder & Co. in London, and wife Agnes Morris (1840 - 5 February 1923), adopted daughter of Alexander Schlüsser, partner in J. Henry Schröder & Co. in London, paternal grandson of Johann Gerhard Tiarks, chaplain of the Duchess of Kent.^[1]

Biography

Educated on HMS Britannia 1887–1889, and served as midshipman in the Royal Navy 1889–1894. 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 (1912–1945); a partnership in J. Henry Schröder & Co.; a partnership in the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company (1917–1948); and High Sheriff of Kent for 1927. He was created an Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire.^[2]

He served in World War I under Sir William Reginald Hall, Director of Naval Intelligence, in Room 40 Admiralty, as Lieut.-Cmdr.^[3]

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'.^[4]

Marriage and issue

Tiarks married in Hamburg, Germany, on 18 November 1899 Emmie "Emmy" Marie Franziska Brödermann (15 February 1875 – 27 July 1943), daughter of Eduard Matthias Brödermann, merchant, and wife Ramona Luisa Clara Ignacia Störzel.^[5][6][7] They had :

• Henry Frederic Tiarks (1900 - 1995) m. Lady Millicent Taylour, had issue
• Ramona Maria Clara Tiarks (1902 - 1991)
• Edward Mathias Tiarks (1904 - 1929) died in flying accident.
• Myra Emmy Tiarks (1910 - 2006)
• Peter Frank Tiarks MC (1910 - 1975) married firstly to Pamela (Silvertop) Clarke, secondly to Lady Henrietta Finch-Hatton, had issue (his will pr. London, 19 Aug at £318,036)

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.

After his death, his will was proved at £222,830 on 8 July 1952.

References

1. Burke's Landed Gentry, 1952 ed., sub Tiarks of Foxbury
2. C.A.H. Franklyn, Genealogy of the Family of Tiarks of Foxbury, Edinburgh, 1969
3. "Tiarks".
4. "Hitler's Black Book - information for Frank C Tiarks".
5. Nicholas Mander, "Borromean Rings: The Genealogy of the Mander Family", Owlpen, 2011.
6. Koerner, Dr jur B., with Cutteroth, U.W., and Will, T., Deutsches Geschlechterbuch (Genealogisches Handbuch Bürglicher Familien): Hamburger Geschlechterbuch, band 36, Goerlitz, 1929.
7. Stammtafel der Familie Brödermann, nach einer auf dem hamburgischen Staatsarchiv befindlichen Aufzeichnung und nach anderen Quellen, Hamburg [privately printed], Sept. 1908 [with revisions to 1912]

• "The Forgotten Banker", ISBN 9781912236008
• Nicholas Mander, "Queen of Seven Swords", Owlpen Press, 2013, ISBN 9780954605650 gives a biography with references.
• "Burke's Peerage and Baronetage"