He was a soldier born and bred.
I am not a born and bred Anglican so I have had little awareness of church politics, at least until recently!
His own favourite ascetics, the Therapeutae, whose chief centre was in Egypt, had renounced property and all its temptations, and fled, irrevocably abandoning brothers, children, wives, parents, throngs of kinsmen, intimacy of friends, the fatherlands where they were born and bred (see Therapeutae).
Bill Bryson is an unabashed Anglophile who, through a mistake of history, happened to be born and bred in Iowa.
Those not born and bred south of the Mason/Dixon line would tend to think that all southern food is deep fried and smothered in gravy, but it's not.
