- Frank Cyril Tiarks
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Frank Cyril Tiarks OBE (also known as FC Tiarks) (9 July 1874 - 7 April 1952) was an English banker.
Tiarks married Emmy Maria Franziska Brödermann of Hamburg, Germany, on 18 November 1899.
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. See TIARKS.CO.UK for genealogy information.
He was also a member of the Anglo-German Fellowship.
Served in World War I, 1914-18 under Sir William Reginald Hall, Director of Naval Intelligence, in Room 40 Admiralty, as Lieut.-Cmdr.[1]
His granddaughter, Henrietta Tiarks, The Dowager Duchess of Bedford, is the widow of the fourteenth Duke of Bedford.
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