A Brief Profile of Richard Burton
geoffvEarly Life Richard Burton was born Richard Walter Jenkins Jr. on 10 November 1925 in Pontrhydyfen, in the now county borough of Neath Port Talbot, Wales. He was the twelfth of the thirteen children of coalminer Richard Walter Jenkins Sr. and barmaid Edith Maude Jenkins. Richard’s mother died when he was barely 2 years old,…