Colin Forrester-Paton

The Reverend Colin Forrester-Paton (5 April 1918 – 1 February 2004), born at Alloa, Scotland, was a Church of Scotland missionary in Ghana and later Chaplain to H.M. 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 (BA, 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 BD 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 ordained as a minister of the Church of Scotland in 1944 and in 1946 was sent to Akropong in the Gold Coast (later called Ghana) by the Church's Missionary Partner Scheme. He taught at the Presbyterian Training College of the Gold Coast and worked for the Presbyterian Church and the Christian Council of Ghana, especially as a translator (having learnt the Twi language and others). He was also stationed at Amedzofe and Sandema in Northern Ghana.

Forrester-Paton left Ghana in 1972 and in 1973 became a Church of Scotland minister in Hawick, Scotland.

In 1981 he was appointed Chaplain to HM the Queen and after his retirement from the active ministry was appointed an Extra Chaplain to HM the Queen in 1988.

Family

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. One of his uncles was the Ernest Forrester Paton (1891–1970), a Scottish missionary in India.

Papers of Forrester-Paton

A substantial collection of Forrester-Paton's papers is held at the Centre for the Study of Christianity in the Non-Western World of the University of Edinburgh.
The National Library of Scotland holds his correspondence and reports home to the Church of Scotland from the Gold Coast, later Ghana, between 1954 and 1971 (Accession number 11977).

Sources

Protestant missions to Africa
People	Roland Allen William Anderson Frederick Stanley Arnot John Arthur Samuel Bill Joseph Booth Daniel Coker Daniel Kumler Flickinger George Grenfell Carl Hugo Hahn Joseph Hardcastle Joseph Crane Hartzell Johannes Ittmann Franz Heinrich Kleinschmidt Johann Ludwig Krapf Margaret Nicholl Laird Christian Ignatius Latrobe David Livingstone Mary Livingstone Alexander Murdoch Mackay Joseph Merrick Robert Moffat Andrew Murray Helen Roseveare Hans Paludan Smith Schreuder John Philip Martti Rautanen Orishatukeh Faduma Alfred Saker Heinrich Schmelen William Henry Sheppard Mary Slessor John McKendree Springer Charles Studd William Taylor Gottlieb Viehe
Missionary agencies	American Board Africa Inland Mission Berlin Missionary Society Bethel Mission BMS World Mission Congo-Balolo Mission Christian and Missionary Alliance Church Mission Society Echoes of Service Finnish Missionary Society Heart of Africa Mission Livingstone Inland Mission London Missionary Society Mission Africa Mission to the World Paris Evangelical Missionary Society Rhenish Missionary Society USPG WEC International Wycliffe Global Alliance
Pivotal events	Slave Trade Act 1807 Slavery Abolition Act 1833
See also	Christianity in Africa Timeline of Christian missions

Christianity in Ghana
Protestantism	Methodist Church of Ghana Presbyterian Church of Ghana International Central Gospel Church Christian Council of Ghana Seventh Day Adventist Church of Ghana Church of the Province of West Africa Evangelical Presbyterian Church, Ghana
Roman Catholic Church	Roman Catholicism in Ghana
Other	The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Ghana
Christian missionaries in Ghana	John Bendor-Samuel Colin Forrester-Paton Jason Rapert
Other pages of interest	Ghana Institute of Linguistics, Literacy and Bible Translation

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