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Varah was born in the town of Barton-upon-Humber, Lincolnshire, the eldest of nine children of the vicar at the Anglican church of St Peter. His father, Canon William Edward Varah, a strict Tractarian, named him after St Chad, who, according to Bede, had founded the 7th-century monastery ad Bearum ("at Barrow"), which may have occupied an Anglo-Saxon enclosure next to Barton Vicarage.
Varah was eldest of triplet boys born in the vicarage of Holy Trinity, Blackburn to Dr Chad Varah and his wife Susan. His father was the local Anglican vicar, who founded the Samaritans charity in 1953. His mother later became world president of the Mothers' Union in the 1970s.
Varah is an English surname. Notable people with this surname include: Chad Varah (1911–2007), British Anglican priest; John Varah Long (1826–1869) Michael Varah (1944–2007), British middle-distance runner and probation officer
On Thursday it is exactly seven decades since the organisation’s vicar founder Chad Varah took the first call on November 2, 1953. Samaritans ‘needed more than ever’ as charity marks 70 ...
The name was not originally chosen by Chad Varah: it was part of a headline to an article in the Daily Mirror newspaper on 7 December 1953 about Varah's work. [ 9 ] In 1972, BBC1 ran an 11-episode television series called The Befrienders , featuring fictional stories about people in desperate situations who reach out to the Samaritans. [ 10 ]
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In 1953 the Samaritans charity was founded by the rector of St Stephen's, Dr Chad Varah. The first Samaritans branch (known as Central London Branch) operated from a crypt beneath the church before moving to Marshall Street in Soho. In tribute to this, a telephone is preserved in a glass box in the church.