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 St Andrew St John, 16th Baron St John of Bletso St Andrew St John, 16th Baron St John of Bletso (5 October 1840 — 2 November 1887) was an English peer. St John was the eldest son of St Andrew Beauchamp St John, 15th Baron St John and his wife Eleanor Hussey. He succeeded his father to become the 16th Lord St John, in 1874 and lived at Melchbourne. Politically he was a Conservative. St John died at Melchbourne at the age of 46 from congestion of the lungs and was buried at Bletsoe. He had no male child and