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.
Yes, I really do seem to live in the past: disestablished in 1920.
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