Born and Bred [SEP] creator
Born and Bred
Born and Bred was a light-hearted British comedy drama series that aired on BBC One from 21 April 2002 to 3 August 2005. Created by Chris Chibnall and Nigel McCrery, "Born and Bred"'s cast was led by James Bolam and Michael French, who play a father and son who run a cottage hospital in Ormston, a fictional Lancashire village in the 1950s. Bolam and French's characters are later replaced by characters played by Richard Wilson and Oliver Milburn.
Cast.
- James
Alexander McBean
Background and education.
He was the second son of Captain Thomas Hamilton McBean, Scots Greys and his wife Rosanna Taylor (born: Grange, Kildare), daughter of Reverend Thomas Taylor M.A. of Ballynure, County Wicklow and Kingston, Ontario, Canada. His mother's brother Thomas Dixon Taylor was the grandfather of Edward Plunkett Taylor, the creator of Canadian Breweries and well known race-horse owner who amongst other horses bred 'Nijinsky II' and 'Northern Dancer', the most successful sire of the