Entrepreneur Deeply-Rooted in the North East ; From the 'Strange Uniform' of the High Sheriff of Northumberland to Getting His Hands Dirty On the Family Farm, Karen Dent Found Out Why Eton-Educated Rural Entrepreneur Charles Beaumont Is Deeply Rooted in the North East.

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ONE of Charles Beaumont's biggest regrets, he says, is not being Northumberland-born. But the former county High Sheriff, who runs Trees Please tree nursery in Corbridge, didn't take long to put down his own roots.

"I was born in London - it's an awful admission to make. But I was seven months when I managed to persuade my parents to move to Northumberland - I knew it was the right place to be from a very early age," he laughs.

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Entrepreneur Deeply-Rooted in the North East ; From the 'Strange Uniform' of the High Sheriff of Northumberland to Getting His Hands Dirty On the Family Farm, Karen Dent Found Out Why Eton-Educated Rural Entrepreneur Charles Beaumont Is Deeply Rooted in the North East.

"And luckily they listened to me, so I have lived here all my conscious life. I certainly wouldn't want to live anywhere else."

Beaumont's business interests - ranging from the tree nursery, which was originally a farm diversification, to chairman of the Tyne Grain drying, storage and marketing group - are firmly Northumberland based.

But he shrugs off suggestions of an entrepreneurial streak and says he's been lucky. Originally destined f...

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