 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.In 1943, Forrester-Paton married Jean Lorimer Crichton Miller (1917–1998), who was then working for the Royal Air Force.