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
Peter St John, 9th Earl of Orkney Robert St John, Viscount Kirkwall, is heir to the Earldom. His first marriage ended in divorce in 1985, and that year he married Mary Barbara Huck (née Albertson). His second marriage brought four step-children. As a male line descendant of the 3rd Viscount Bolingbroke, he is also in remainder to this title. Peter St John, 9th Earl of Orkney Oliver Peter St John, 9th Earl of Orkney (born 27 February 1938) is a retired Canadian political scientist and academic, and Scottish peer. He was a lecturer at University College London, England, before moving to the University of Manitoba, Canada where