Jane Eyre (1996 film) estate (and ultimately Mr. Rochester) with his wife, Bertha (Maria Schneider), who is mentally ill and kept locked away in an upstairs attic with a nurse, Grace Poole (Billie Whitelaw). The marriage is stopped by Bertha's brother Richard Mason (Edward de Souza) and lawyer Briggs (Peter Woodthorpe). Jane flees, her world crashing down is a nightmare. She recovers in the parsonage of her original aunt's home, discovers she is now a wealthy woman inheriting her long-lost uncle's fortune in Madeira. She gets a proposal of marriage from Parson St. John Rivers but her heart and soul is with Rochester. Jane
St Andrew St John, 16th Baron St John of Bletso the title passed to his younger brother Beauchamp. St John married Ellen Georgina Senior, daughter of Edward Senior, a Poor Law Commissioner. They had two daughters, one of whom married Max Townley who was a land agent for later holders of the title and served as MP for Mid Bedfordshire from 1918 to 1922. After the death of her husband, Ellen married Francis Savile Harry Judd of Rickling Essex. She died at Saffron Walden at the age of 49. St Andrew St John, 16th Baron St John of Bletso St Andrew St John, 16th Baron St John of Bletso (5