Background
Forrester was brother of David Forrester, a merchant and burgess of Stirling, was born at Stirling about 1635, and admitted minister of Alva in Stirling under the bishop in 1664.
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Thomas Forrester
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The perusal of John Brown"s (1610?–1679) ‘Apologetical Relation’ led him to renounce episcopacy, and he became a field preacher. He was imprisoned in Edinburgh, but liberated by the indemnity of March 1674, and was deposed on the 29th of the same month. He was proclaimed a fugitive 5 May 1684, and settled at Killearn.
After the revolution he became in succession minister of Killearn (1688) and of Saint Andrews (May 1692).
He refused calls to Glasgow and other places, and was appointed principal of the new college at Saint Andrews on 26 January 1698 (Street Mary"s), in which office he died in November 1706.
His principal work is ‘The Hierarchical Bishop"s Claim to a Divine Right tried at the Scripture Bar,’ 1699.
