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

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, Commissioner of Trade and Customs, by his marriage to Phyllis Muriel Jarrett. In 1947, the family moved to

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. She returned to Britain to be educated at St Winifred's School,

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, Kendal Girls High School, Westmorland, and

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.''Newnham College Register, 1871—1971: 1951–1970'' (Newnham College, 1990), p. 160 On leaving Cambridge in 1964, she married Ian Berwick; they have one son. 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

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, unusually deciding to plant only

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vines. By 1984 they were among the most successful of English wine growers, and at a time of renewed interest in wine-growing helped to spread the news that establishing commercial vineyards in Britain was now possible. In 1997 Ian Berwick was chairman of the United Kingdom Vineyards Association. In 2005, Eleanor Berwick was a member of the Bruisyard Parish Plan Committee. The Bruisyard vineyard continued to produce wine following the retirement of the couple, becoming also a herb centre.Bruisyard Winery, Vineyard and Herb Centre
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Berwick, Eleanor 1943 births Living people Alumni of Newnham College, Cambridge East Africa Protectorate people English viticulturists People educated at St Winifred's School