sentences:  René was born Ian Alistair Bruce in 1956, the oldest child of a GP.He grew up in Wanstead, East London, and at the age of eight went to King's College Choir School in Cambridge as a boarder.When he was 13 the family moved to Eastry, Kent, and Ian transferred to day school and took up fishing, about which, says his sister Fiona, he was "completely passionate".