Christian Collett Hersleb Kjerschow (23 August 1821 – 10 April 1889) was a

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politician. He was born in

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as the oldest son of bishop

Peder Christian Hersleb Kjerschow Peder Christian Hersleb Kjerschow (29 June 1786 – 24 November 1866) was a Norwegian clergyman. Biography He was born at Rødøy in Nordland, Norway. He was the son of the Danish-born priest Rasmus Sundt Christensen Kjerschow (1739–1806) an ...

(1786–1866) and his wife Johanne Benedicte Collett (1802–1851). His younger sister Caroline Sophie Erasmine Kjerschow married businessman

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, and was the mother of

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. Christian Kjerschow was also a maternal grandson of mining director

Christian Ancher Collett Christian Ancher Collett (30 April 1771 – 10 January 1833) was a Norwegian engineer, architect, and building inspector. He was born as the oldest child of Peter Collett and Johanne Henriche Ancher. He had two older half-siblings, Peter Collett a ...

. Christian Collett Kjerschow married Nancy Adelaide Esbensen. They had several children. In the 1902 census his family were registered with two servants. Their sons Peder and Karald and grandson Arild all became jurists. Christian Collett Kjerschow was elected from the constituency ''Tromsø, Hammerfest, Vardø og Vadsø'' to the

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in 1868. At that time he served as

stipendiary magistrate Stipendiary magistrates were magistrates that were paid for their work (they received a stipend). They existed in the judiciaries of the United Kingdom and those of several former British territories, where they sat in the lowest-level criminal ...

() and chief of police. He then served as County Governor of ''Tromsøe Amt'' from 1869 to 1889.

References

1821 births 1889 deaths Members of the Storting Politicians from Tromsø County governors of Norway {{Norway-politician-1820s-stub