Leifchild Leif-Jones, 1st Baron Rhayader

Leifchild Stratten Leif-Jones, 1st Baron Rhayader PC (16 January 1862 – 26 September 1939), known as Leif Jones before his elevation to the peerage in 1932, was a British Temperance movement leader and Liberal politician.

Born Leifchild Stratten Jones on 16 January 1862 in St Pancras, London, the fifth of the six children of Thomas Jones (1819–1882), an Independent clergyman, formerly of Morriston, Swansea, and Jane Jones, daughter of John Jones of Dowlais. His older siblings were David Brynmor (b. 1851), Annie, John Viriamu (b. 1862) and Irvonwy; his younger brother was Morlais Glasfryn. 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.

From 1905 to January 1910 Leif Jones served as Member of Parliament for Appleby, in Cumbria. Whilst an MP he voted in favour of the 1908 Women's Enfranchisement Bill.

From December 1910 to 1918 he served as Member for Rushcliffe, in Nottinghamshire. In 1917 he was sworn of the Privy Council. From 1923 to 1924 and from 1929 to 1931 he served as Member for Camborne, in Cornwall.

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