John Silvester Varley (born c.1956) is a British banker, currently Group Chief Executive of Barclays Bank. Varley attended the Catholic Downside School and has a Master's degree in history and attended London's College of Law. In 1981 he married Carolyn Thorn Pease, daughter of Sir Richard Thorn Pease, and in so doing married into the Quaker Pease family, whose bank became part of Barclays in 1902. Wikipedia
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