 His brothers David Brynmor Jones and John Viriamu Jones would both achieve prominence in public life.In 1867, when Leifchild was five years old, his mother died, and in 1869 his father left London, for health reasons, moving firstly back to Swansea (1870–1877) and afterwards to Melbourne, Australia (1877–1880), where Leifchild was educated at Scotch College, Melbourne, from 31 July 1877 to December 1878.Afterwards Leifchild became a student at Trinity College, Oxford.