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"WITHOUT Philip Burton there never would have been a Richard Burton. That great rolling voice that crackled like wild Atlantic waves would never have been heard outside the valley. Those green cat-eyes would have broken probably only a few hundred hearts instead of millions." So wrote Elizabeth Taylor of Philip Burton, legal guardian of Richard Burton, who has died aged 90.
A 13-year-old Richard Jenkins, as he was then named, met Philip Burton in the late thirties, when he was senior master at Port Talbot Secondary School, South Wales...