Biography

Peregrine was educated at Uppingham School, Rutland; eventually expelled after a series of misdemeanors involving the table maids, his housemaster’s daughter and Dolly the school mascot. The final straw being a wine tasting club leading to a catastrophic confrontation with the Louis XV upholstery in the headmasters private suite. Disgraced, he was banished by the head of the Oatenshaw family to France where he studied the grape at close quarters. A classical education at Oxford was followed by a spell as a sheep shearer in the australian outback, an experience which even today causes Perry to shudder visibly….