Birth and Early Life of Gordon Ramsay

Gordon James Ramsay was born in Johnstone, Scotland, on 8 November 1966, to Helen (née Cosgrove), a nurse, and Gordon James Sr., who worked as a swimming pool manager, welder, and shopkeeper. He has an older sister, a younger brother, and a younger sister. When he was nine years old, he moved with his family to England and grew up in the Bishopton area of Stratford-upon-Avon. He has described his early life as 'hopelessly itinerant' and said his family moved constantly owing to the aspirations and failures of his father, who was an occasionally violent alcoholic; Ramsay described him as a 'hard-drinking womaniser'. In his autobiography, he revealed that his father abused and neglected the children and his mother. .