{{Short description|Retired English vintner}} '''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.<ref name=NCR/> In 1947, the family moved to North Borneo.<ref>"Briton returns to Sabah to honour late father", ''Borneo Post'', 19 February 2014</ref> She returned to Britain to be educated at St Winifred's School, Llanfairfechan, Kendal Girls High School, Westmorland, and Newnham College, Cambridge.<ref name=NCR>''Newnham College Register, 1871—1971: 1951–1970'' (Newnham College, 1990), p. 160</ref> On leaving Cambridge in 1964, she married Ian Berwick MBE; they have two sons.<ref name=NCR/>
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.<ref>''Decanter'' (Decanter Magazine Limited, 1983), p. 83</ref> By 1984 they were among the most successful of English wine growers,<ref>''The Listener'', Vol. 111 (1984), p. 14</ref><ref>''Gourmet'' Vol. 45, p. 119</ref> and at a time of renewed interest in wine-growing helped to spread the news that establishing commercial vineyards in Britain was now possible.<ref>Stephen Skelton, ''The Wines of Great Britain'' (London: Infinite Ideas, 13 May 2019), p. 79</ref> In 1997 Ian Berwick was chairman of the United Kingdom Vineyards Association.<ref>''Decanter'', Vol. 22, Issues 6-12 (1997), p. 6</ref> In 2005, Eleanor Berwick was a member of the Bruisyard Parish Plan Committee.<ref>[https://docs.wixstatic.com/ugd/604256_8d6d9ab76562480f866dc1fa231c2baa.pdf Bruisyard Parish Plan], wixstatic.com, accessed 15 August 2021</ref>
The Bruisyard vineyard continued to produce wine following the retirement of the couple, becoming also a herb centre.<ref>[https://www.britinfo.net/T/1016503.htm Bruisyard Winery, Vineyard and Herb Centre], britinfo.net, accessed 15 August 2021</ref>
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