The Reverend Colin Forrester-Paton, born at Alloa, Scotland, was a Church of Scotland missionary in Ghana and later Chaplain to Her Majesty The Queen in Scotland.
Education
Forrester-Paton was educated in Moffat, at Gresham"s School, Holt, and New College, Oxford, where he gained a first class degree (Bachelor, Honours) in 1940. He then trained for the ministry at the United Free Church"s New College, Edinburgh, and at the University of London, graduating with a Bachelor's Degree degree in 1943.
Career
Between 1943 and 1946 Forrester-Paton was secretary of the Student Christian Movement and became interested in missionary work. He was also stationed at Amedzofe and Sandema in Northern Ghana. In 1981 he was appointed Chaplain to Her Majesty the Queen and after his retirement from the active ministry was appointed an Extra Chaplain to Her Majesty the Queen in 1988.
In 1943, Forrester-Paton married Jean Lorimer Crichton Miller (1917–1998), who was then working for the Royal Air Force.
She joined him in the Gold Coast in 1947 and they had three children. Forrester-Paton"s grandfather was a rich mill owner, but the family was more concerned with religion than with business and his great-aunt, Catherine Forrester-Paton, established a women"s missionary training college in Glasgow.