Ellen Svinhufvud ( Timgren; 23 December 1869 — 24 August 1953) was the wife of Finland's third president,

Pehr Evind Svinhufvud Pehr Evind Svinhufvud af Qvalstad (; 15 December 1861 – 29 February 1944) was the third president of Finland from 1931 to 1937. Serving as a lawyer, judge, and politician in the Russian Grand Duchy of Finland, he played a major role in the ...

, serving as the First Lady of Finland from 1931 until 1937. She married Pehr Evind Svinhufvud in 1889, and the couple had six children. She was active in the women's paramilitary

Lotta Svärd Lotta Svärd () was a Finnish voluntary auxiliary paramilitary organisation for women. Formed originally in 1918, it had a large membership undertaking volunteer social work in the 1920s and 1930s. It was formed to support the White Guard. Du ...

organisation, as well as in the Martha organisation. Her personal interests included various

handicraft A handicraft, sometimes more precisely expressed as artisanal handicraft or handmade, is any of a wide variety of types of work where useful and decorative objects are made completely by one’s hand or by using only simple, non-automated re ...

s, and she even had a

loom A loom is a device used to weave cloth and tapestry. The basic purpose of any loom is to hold the warp threads under tension to facilitate the interweaving of the weft threads. The precise shape of the loom and its mechanics may vary, but th ...

installed in the Presidential Palace. She was also a keen gardener, and skilled at looking after the family manor house and farm in

Luumäki Luumäki () is a municipality of Finland. Its seat is in the Taavetti village. It is located in the province of Southern Finland and is part of the South Karelia region. The municipality has a population of () and covers an area of of which is ...

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First Ladies and Gentlemen of Finland People from Turku 1869 births 1953 deaths {{Finland-bio-stub