Frances Mary Richardson Currer collections of Richard Heber which were larger than Currer's. Heber and Currer had a close relationship and Heber was bailed out by Currer when he had financial difficulties. It has been speculated that Currer was a benefactor of the Brontë sisters and this is the reason that Charlotte Brontë chose the nom de plume of "Currer Bell" for her novel "Jane Eyre". It is thought that she gave the Brontë sisters' father £50 to assist them when he became a widower. Currer did donate money to the Clergy Daughter's School that the Brontë sisters attended as well as funding the
Bronte, New South Wales Beach. The suburb has been declared the best of 641 Sydney suburbs by the "Sydney Morning Herald"'s "Good Suburbs Guide". Robert Lowe who later became Viscount Sherbrooke, bought of land from Mortimer Lewis, the English-born Australian Colonial Architect who owned most of the frontage in the area in the 1830s. His home was completed in 1845 and was named "Bronte House", for Lord Nelson, who was the Duke of Bronte, a place in Sicily, Italy. The house, a single-storey stone bungalow located in Bronte Road, is owned by Waverley Council and leased to private tenants who hold open days a