Frank Cyril Tiarks

Frank Cyril Tiarks OBE (born July 9, 1874 in Bacham , Surrey , † April 7, 1952 in Loxton , Somerset ) was a British secret service officer of the First World War and banker in London.

Life

Tiarks came from a well-known Jeverland family that had established a social and entrepreneurial foothold in England in the 19th century. His father Henry Frederic Tiarks (1832-1911) was Governor of the Royal Exchange and created the Foxbury family estate in Chislehurst , Kent in south-east London. His second son Frank Cyril was initially a naval officer and served on HMS Britannia and on HMS Warspite as a second lieutenant. After the death of his older brother in India in 1893, he and his father became a partner in the J. Henry Schröder banking house . He experienced the First World War as a lieutenant captain and officer in the British Naval Intelligence Department in Room 40 of the British Admiralty under the command of Sir William Reginald Hall, a special department of cryptanalysts that also deciphered the Zimmermann dispatch . After the war, during the Allied occupation of the Rhineland, he became civil commissioner for money transactions in the Rhineland ( Rhineland Commission ). He was a director of the Bank of England until its nationalization in 1946 and one of the partners and directors of the Anglo-Iranian Oil Co. Since 1911 Tiarks belonged to HM Lieutenants for the City of London and from 1927 he was High Sheriff of Kent . Frank Cyril Tiarks was one of the influential personalities in the circle of the Anglo-German Fellowship .

He married Emmy Maria Franziska Brödermann (1875–1943) in Hamburg in 1899.

Tony Allen: The Forgotten Banker. The Remarkable Life of Frank Cyril Tiarks , Chislehurst: Old Chapel Books Chislehurst 2018, ISBN 978-1-912236-00-8 .

personal data
SURNAME	Tiarks, Frank Cyril
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	British intelligence officer, banker
DATE OF BIRTH	July 9, 1874
PLACE OF BIRTH	Bacham , Surrey
DATE OF DEATH	April 7, 1952
Place of death	Loxton , Somerset