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, 15th Baron St John of Bletso He lived at Melchbourne Park and politically was a Tory, unlike his father. St John died aged 62 at Melchbourne, and was buried at Bletsoe. He was succeeded in the title successively by his sons St Andrew and Beauchamp. St John married Eleanor Hussey, daughter of Vice-Admiral Sir Richard Hussey Hussey on 12 March 1838. In addition to his two sons Andrew and Beauchamp who succeeded successively to the barony, he had a third son Edmund and daughters Eleanor and Laura (12 June 1842 - 21 October 1919), who married Connolly McCausland of Drenagh (13 May 1828 - 25 June