Per Gustaf Svinhufvud af Qvalstad (May 13, 1804 - September 30, 1866) was a Finnish provincial treasurer of Tavastia and the host of the Rapola Manor in Sääksmäki.
[3] From a young age, Svinhufvud studied law in Turku and from 1830 worked as an official of Kymmenegård, then of the Mikkeli Provincial Government, from 1838 first as a provincial chamber in Heinola, then in Mikkeli, but also cultivated his home in Rapola's stone barn.
[5] Svinhufvud married 20-year-old Ulrika Charlotta Fredrika von Kraemer (1813–1852) in Hämeenlinna on June 28, 1833.
He was drowned in a shipwreck in the Greek archipelago in 1863 at the age of 27, when his son Pehr Evind was only 2 years old.
[1] However, the manor with its premises was eventually heavily indebted, and before Rapola was forced into auction, the depressed Svinhufvud committed suicide by shooting himself in 1866 when his grandson Pehr Evind was only 4 years old.