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About John Tiarks
- John Gerhard Tiarks (5 April 1903 – 2 January 1974) was an Anglican bishop whose ecclesiastical career spanned forty five years in the mid twentieth century. Educated at Westminster School and Trinity College, Cambridge and ordained in 1927 — he was deaconed at Petertide 1926 (4 July) and priested the next Trinity Sunday (12 June 1927), both times by Albert David, Bishop of Liverpool, at Liverpool Cathedral — he began his career with a Curacy at Christ Church Southport after which he was Vicar of Norris Green.
- He then held further incumbencies in Widnes and St Helens before becoming Provost of Bradford Cathedral.
- In 1962 he became Bishop of Chelmsford, a post he held for nine years.
- He was consecrated a bishop on 24 February 1962 by Michael Ramsey, Archbishop of Canterbury, at Westminster Abbey; he was second-cousin to Geoffrey Tiarks (Bishop of Maidstone, 1969–1976).
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