He was largely inactive in the affairs of his church, the Scotch Presbyterian Church, later known as St Gabriel Street Church. In 1827, Forsyth was appointed to the Legislative Council of Lower Canada on Lord Dalhousie’s recommendation. However, unlike many prominent businessmen, and most notably his partner, Forsyth was not offered, or did not he accept any great number of government appointments. Personal life From the 1790s at least, Forsyth was part of the social circuit on which the upper echelon of the Montreal business community prided itself. Jacob Mountain dined in a large company at Forsyth’s home in 1794: "The house itself is elegant, and the dinner splendid... People here are fond of good living and take care to want no luxury". Forsyth's political and social views and activities were representative of those of the most prominent business figures in Montreal. In the 1790s he had welcomed into his home refugees from the French Revolution. Forsyth founded the Montreal Hunt in 1826 and was a member of the Beaver Club at Montreal. Family and final years In 1798, at St Andrew's Church, Quebec, Forsyth married Margaret Grant (1777-1818), daughter of Charles Grant (d.1784), a prominent Quebec merchant from an influential Scots-Quebecer family trading between London and Canada. Charles was the third son of the Laird of Kincorth and a grandson of Grant of Glenbeg, whose portrait hung at Castle Grant. Mrs Forsyth's mother, Jane Holmes (1750-1805), afterwards married The Hon. John Blackwood. The Forsyths were the parents of two sons and a daughter, all of whom married within Forsyth's business circle: William Forsyth-Grant (1804-1863) J.P., D.L., succeeded his uncle, Frederick Grant, to Ecclesgreig Castle, taking the additional name of 'Grant'. He married his first cousin, Euretta Forsyth, daughter of Joseph Forsyth, of Kingston, Upper Canada; sister of James Bell Forsyth. Their eldest son was Aide-de-camp to Queen Victoria. Their third son married a daughter of The Hon. John Beverley Robinson. John Blackwood Forsyth (1805-1891), married a daughter of Samuel Gerrard. Jane Prescott Forsyth (1807-1869), married Captain George Gregory of the 19th Light Dragoons. He was the son of John Gregory, of Montreal, a former colleague of Jane's father in the North West Company and a fellow member of the Beaver Club. A nephew, James Bell Forsyth, represented Forsyth, Richardson at Quebec City, in association with William Walker from 1821. Richardson died in May 1831, and for a time Forsyth