Oystermouth is a village in Mumbles near Swansea, quite close to where I attended university. In those days a train ran along the sea front from Swansea to Mumbles; I still have fond memories of riding on it to Mumbles pier as a child.

It was a quaint, pretty area – I haven’t been there for many years – and doesn’t deserve the ignominy of having the person who did nothing to prevent the disintegration of its established church become a baron bearing its name.

Rowan Williams will be created a Baron for Life by the style and title of Baron Williams of Oystermouth in the City and County of Swansea.