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Retired English vintner From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Eleanor Muriel Berwick (born 4 November 1943), previously Knowles, is a retired English wine-grower.
Born in 1943 at Mengo, in British East Africa, Eleanor Knowles was the daughter of Robert Knowles OBE, Commissioner of Trade and Customs, by his marriage to Phyllis Muriel Jarrett.[1] In 1947, the family moved to North Borneo.[2] She returned to Britain to be educated at St Winifred's School, Llanfairfechan, Kendal Girls High School, Westmorland, and Newnham College, Cambridge.[1] On leaving Cambridge in 1964, she married Ian Berwick MBE; they have two sons.[1]
In 1974, after retiring from the rubber industry, Eleanor and Ian Berwick planted Bruisyard, a ten-acre vineyard at the village of the same name near Saxmundham in Suffolk, unusually deciding to plant only Müller-Thurgau vines.[3] By 1984 they were among the most successful of English wine growers,[4][5] and at a time of renewed interest in wine-growing helped to spread the news that establishing commercial vineyards in Britain was now possible.[6] In 1997 Ian Berwick was chairman of the United Kingdom Vineyards Association.[7] In 2005, Eleanor Berwick was a member of the Bruisyard Parish Plan Committee.[8]
The Bruisyard vineyard continued to produce wine following the retirement of the couple, becoming also a herb centre.[9]
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