For population 25 years and over in Porter: 1  High school or higher: 77.3%. 2  Bachelor's degree or higher: 6.3%. 3  Graduate or professional degree: 1.2%. 4  Unemployed: 11.4%.
Probably more frequently remembered for his turbulent personal life and multiple marriages, Richard Burton was nonetheless one of the great British actors of the post-WWII period. Burton was born Richard Walter Jenkins in Pontrhydyfen, Wales, to Edith Maude (Thomas) and Richard Walter Jenkins, a coal miner. His mother died while he was a toddler and his father abandoned the family, leaving him to be raised by his sister Cecilia and her husband Elfred.
User:Taz Manchester listed Richard Francis Burton as a convert to Islam -- I am not sure about this. In the Lovell biography A rage to live page 84, she states It has often been said, even recently, that at heart Richard was a Muslim, that he accepted the Muslim faith and lived by it throughout his life.