Spencer Proudfoot Shotter

Spencer Proudfoot Shotter (1855 – December 5, 1920) was a Canadian businessman. A naval-stores magnate, he purchased Greenwich Plantation in Thunderbolt, Georgia, and renamed it Greenwich Place. The site is now occupied by Greenwich Cemetery.

Early life Shotter was born in Wellington County, Canada West, in 1855, to Spencer Lough Shotter and Mary Proudfoot. His father was a native of Kent, England. Shotter was a grandnephew of William Proudfoot, a Canadian politician. after becoming embroiled in an antitrust lawsuit. The United States Supreme Court decided in the defendants' favor on June 9, 1913, reversing an earlier judgment.

Personal life Shotter married Isabelle Eagle Davis, daughter of George Davis, in 1881. She died a year later, shortly after the birth of daughter Isabel, the couple's only child. It had double colonnades, twenty-eight columns on three sides, each measuring twenty-eight inches in diameter and more than twenty feet tall. It had extensive gardens containing expanses of lawn, boxwood hedges, imported plants, and decorative pools.

In 1917, he sold Greenwich Place to Dr. Henry Norton Torrey, a brain surgeon from Detroit.

Shotter was a member of the Chatham Hunt Club, alongside Mills B. Lane Sr, and of the Georgia Historical Society.