Lyndsay McLaren Forster (née Clifford; 19 September 1925 – 20 January 2009) was a New Zealand arachnologist.
[1][2] Forster was born in Upper Hutt and grew up on a small farm near Feilding.
She enrolled at Victoria University College in Wellington but moved to Christchurch in 1948 without completing her degree.
[1] Forster was a lecturer in zoology at the University of Otago, and also carried out research and wrote papers and books on spiders.
[3] Forster was also an active member of the Otago Institute (the Otago branch of the Royal Society of New Zealand); in 1990 she was elected president, the first woman to hold the position.