At 15, he abandoned school to work as a haberdasher's assistant, but despised the menial work.Īlready a dedicated smoker and regular drinker by his early teens, Burton was teetering on the edge of a dreary life when his schoolmaster, Meredith Jones, found him at a local youth center and persuaded the area school committee to re-admit him to grammar school. Though he excelled at school, especially in English and Welsh literature, his interests were geared more toward rugby and cricket.
Another sibling, Ifor, who was 19 years older than Burton, became his de facto father figure, and in later years, his assistant and boon companion. Because his father was a heavy drinker and gambler whose lively personality hid a streak of violence, at age two, Burton was adopted, more or less, by his sister Cecilia and her husband, Elfed, and raised in Port Talbot. 10, 1925, the twelfth of 13 children born to Richard "Dic" Jenkins and his wife Edith, who died at the age of 44 while giving birth to the thirteenth child.
He began life as Richard Walter Jenkins in Pontrhydyfen, a mining town in South Wales, on Nov.
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