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.
Technical quibble. The Church in Wales is not a part of the Church of England and is not established.
If Oystermouth is in Mumbles, it sounds like an apt title for the Rowboat.
Expect no pearls of wisdom from this oystermouth.
As a resident of Oystermouth it iis a honour to have him as a Baron