Frank Cyril Tiarks

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Frank Cyril Tiarks OBE (also known as FC Tiarks) (July 9, 1874 - April 7, 1952) was a British banker.

Tiarks married Emmy Maria Franziska Brödermann of Hamburg, Germany, on November 18, 1899.

Among his appointments were a directorship of the Bank of England (1912-1945); a partnership in J. Henry Schröder and Co; a partnership in the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company (1917-1948); and High Sheriff of Kent (1927).

He was also a member of the Anglo-German Fellowship.

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

Served in World War I, 1914-18 under Sir Reginald Hall, Director of Naval Intelligence, in Room 40 Admiralty, as Lieut.-Cmdr. http://www.tiarks.co.uk/tiarks_19.htm