Sir, – While the family of Co Down-born Patrick Brontë is synonymous with the Yorkshire moors, as Frank McNally writes ("An Irishman's Diary", March 26th), the Irish connection was revived in 1921 by the appointment of New Zealand-born James Brontë Gatenby, a descendant of Patrick's brother, as professor of zoology in Trinity College Dublin.
James’s son, Peter Barry Brontë Gatenby, who died last year, became professor of medicine at Trinity College in 1960.– Yours, etc,
Dr JOHN DOHERTY,
Vienna.