Varah, (Edward) Chad (1911–2007)
Church of England clergyman who founded the Samaritans, the British telephone service for befriending the suicidal and despairing.Born in Barton-on-Humber, of which his father was vicar, he was educated at Worksop College and Keble College, Oxford. As a priest in south London he recognized the problem of isolation that human beings can suffer, even in the midst of a family. This was brought home to him when he had to bury a young girl who had taken her own life because she believed herself to be terminally ill when she began to menstruate. An article he wrote on sexual problems for the magazine ... ...
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