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
Frederick Robert St John three daughters. Peter St John, 9th Earl of Orkney is the grandson of this marriage. Frederick Robert St John Sir Frederick Robert St John, KCMG (2 March 1831 – 27 February 1923) was a British diplomat. St John was the fourth son of Hon. Ferdinand St John, third son of George St John, 3rd Viscount Bolingbroke and his wife Selina Charlotte Keatinge, daughter of Maurice St Leger Keatinge. He was educated at Cheltenham College. In 1855, St John entered the diplomatic service and was sent as attaché to Florence and then to Stuttgart. He was promoted to second secretary at