Tiarks family of Foxbury

Children of Henry and Agnes Tiarks.

Henry was born in 1832 in Whitechapel, London. His father Johann, came to London in 1820, from Jever, Lower Saxony, and was appointed as pastor of the Reformed Lutheran Church in East London from 1827. Henry was educated at the Mercers School, which he left in 1847 for a job as junior clerk in the merchant firm, J. Henry Schröder & Co. In 1862 he became office manager, and was admitted to partnership in 1871. He was the first of three generations of Tiarks who were to be partners in the firm. Henry was also very active in local Chislehurst life, and residents then and now have many reasons to remember him.

He married Agnes Morris on 11 September 1862. She was born on 23 June 1840, the fourth daughter of James Taylor Morris and Sarah Skanes. As an infant, following the death of her father, she was adopted by Alexander Schlusser, a partner at Schröders, which was how she met Henry Tiarks .

Henry Tiarks had three surviving brothers and two sisters. One brother, John, Rector of Loxton, Somerset, was great-grandfather to Captain Mark Phillips, who married and divorced Princess Anne.

Henry died in 1911, and Agnes in 1923. They are buried the Tiarks’ grave in St Nicholas churchyard. They had eleven children:

• Margaret Agnes, 1866-1959. She married Hugh Lubbock in 1890,2nd son of Sir Neville Lubbock of Bromley Common. They had four children. They divorced in 1934. He died in 1938.
• Alice Ellen, 1868-1944. She married Arthur Lubbock in 1895, 3rd son of Sir Neville Lubbock. They had two children. He died 1939.
• Henry Frederic, 1870-1893. He was educated at Marlborough, and joined the 5th Dragoon Guards. He died in Meerut in India.
• Edith Mary, 1873-1962. She married Lieut-Col George Booker in 1892. They had two children. He died in 1938.
• Frank Cyril, OBE, 1874-1952. Educated aboard HMS Britannia. He became a partner in Schröders, and held a number of eminent positions. In 1939 he retired to Loxton, Somerset, and is buried at the churchyard there. He married EmmyMaria Franziska Brödermann in 1899, and they had five children.
• Herman Alexander, 1875-1955. He was educated at Marlborough and Christ Church Oxford. He moved to Webbington, near Loxton, in 1900, where he was able to indulge his passion for hunting. He was Master of the Mendip Hunt, and wrote ‘Hunting Reminiscences’. He married Jessie Follett in 1901. She died of tuberculosis in 1923 without children. Herman and Jesse are buried in the churchyard of St James the Great, Winscombe, Somerset.
• Ellen (Nellie) Emily, 1877-1960. She married the Rev Athole Murray in 1917. They had one child. Athole died in 1962. They are both buried in the family tomb at St Nicholas, Chislehurst.
• Agnes Henrietta, 1878-1980, She never married. She is buried in the family tomb at St Nicholas, Chislehurst.
• Sophie Louise, 1880-1960. She never married. She is buried in the family tomb at St Nicholas, Chislehurst. Sophie was very active locally. She ran a boy’s club here, and financed the building of the Village Hall Annexe. She was active with the Red Cross, and a Councillor.
• Matilda Gertrude, 1881-1972. Married Captain Percy Hare in 1903. They had five children. He died in 1937.
• Frederica Octavia, 1883-1966. She married Admiral Sir Michael Hodges in 1903. They had five children. He died in 1951.

Children of Frank and Emmy Tiarks

• Henry Frederic, 1900-1995. Educated at Eton. He also became a partner in J Henry Schröder, and later of Schröders Ltd. He married twice, first in 1930 to Lady Millicent Olivia Mary Taylour, only daughter of the 4th Marquess of Headfort. Henry’s second marriage was in 1936 to Ina Florence Marshman Bell, later known as the actress Joan Barry. Their only surviving child was Henrietta Joan, b.1940. She married the Marquess of Tavistock, who later became the Duke of Bedford. She is the now the dowager Duchess. She had three children: Andrew, 1962, and now Duke of Bedford, Robbie, 1963, and Jamie, 1975.
• Ramona Maria Clara, 1902-1985. She married when she was 54. She had no children.
• Edward Mathias 1904-1929. Educated at Eton and Christ Church Oxford. He died in a plane crash and is buried in St Mary’s churchyard, Chislehurst.
• Peter Frank 1910-1975 (twin to Myra). Educated at Eton and Balliol College Oxford. He married twice. First to Pamela Silvertop, and had one child. Secondly he married Lady Diana Juanita Finch-Hatton, and had three children.
• Myra Emmy, b. 1910. She married Richard Mallock and had one son and one daughter.