By the 13th century there were five major branches of the Clan Ramsay: the Ramsays of Dalhousie, the Ramsays of Auchterhouse, the Ramsays of Banff, the Ramsay of Forfar and the Ramsays of Clatto.
Lee's first job in the hospitality business was as a waiter at the Old Mansion House Hotel in Auchterhouse.
When he was three years old his family moved to the village Auchterhouse in Angus County (now Tayside).
Born in the rural parish of Auchterhouse in Angus, Scotland, into a farming family, Bell chose to study divinity at the University of St Andrews.