Frank Cyril Tiarks OBE

Order of the British Empire

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(also known as FC Tiarks) (9 July 1874 - 7 April 1952) was an English banker.

Tiarks married Emmy Maria Franziska Brödermann of Hamburg

Hamburg

-History:The first historic name for the city was, according to Claudius Ptolemy's reports, Treva.But the city takes its modern name, Hamburg, from the first permanent building on the site, a castle whose construction was ordered by the Emperor Charlemagne in AD 808...

, Germany

Germany

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, on 18 November 1899.

Among his appointments were a directorship of the Bank of England (1912-1945); a partnership in J. Henry Schröder & Co.

Schroders

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; a partnership in the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company (1917-1948); and High Sheriff of Kent

High Sheriff of Kent

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 for 1927. See TIARKS.CO.UK for genealogy information.

He was also a member of the Anglo-German Fellowship

Anglo-German Fellowship

The Anglo-German Fellowship was a group which existed from 1935 to 1939 and aimed to build up friendship between the United Kingdom and Germany; it was widely perceived as being allied to Nazism...

.

Served in World War I, 1914-18 under Sir William Reginald Hall

William Reginald Hall

Admiral Sir William Reginald Hall, KCMG, CB, RN was the British Director of Naval Intelligence from 1914 to 1919...

, Director of Naval Intelligence

Director of Naval Intelligence

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, in Room 40

Room 40

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 Admiralty, as Lieut.-Cmdr.

His granddaughter, Henrietta Tiarks, The Dowager Duchess of Bedford, is the widow of the fourteenth Duke of Bedford.