Christian Collett Kjerschow

{{Short description|Norwegian politician}}

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

He was born in Aker as the oldest son of bishop Peder Christian Hersleb Kjerschow (1786–1866) and his wife Johanne Benedicte Collett (1802–1851). His younger sister Caroline Sophie Erasmine Kjerschow married businessman Jacob Andreas Michelsen,{{Cite web |title=Caroline Sophie Erasmine Kjerschow b. 20 Sep 1827 Aker d. 1902: Erik Berntsens slektssider |url=http://vestraat.net/TNG/getperson.php?personID=I77767&tree=IEA |access-date=2016-05-23 |website=vestraat.net}} and was the mother of Christian Michelsen. Christian Kjerschow was also a maternal grandson of mining director Christian Ancher Collett.

Christian Collett Kjerschow married Nancy Adelaide Esbensen. They had several children.{{Cite web |title=Christian Collet Hersleb Kjerschow b. 23 Aug 1821 Aker, Akershus d. 10 Apr 1889: Erik Berntsens slektssider |url=http://vestraat.net/TNG/getperson.php?personID=I16682&tree=IEA |access-date=2016-05-23 |website=vestraat.net}} In the 1902 census his family were registered with two servants.{{Cite web |title=Resultat fra søk i folketellingen 1885 |url=http://www.rhd.uit.no/folketellinger/ftliste1885.aspx?knr=1902&kenr=000&bnr=0219 |access-date=2016-05-23}} Their sons Peder and Karald and grandson Arild all became jurists.{{Cite encyclopedia |year=2007 |title=Kjerschow |encyclopedia=Aschehoug og Gyldendals Store norske leksikon |publisher=Kunnskapsforlaget |url=http://www.snl.no/article.html?id=630572}}{{Dead link|date=July 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}

Christian Collett Kjerschow was elected from the constituency Tromsø, Hammerfest, Vardø og Vadsø to the Norwegian Parliament in 1868. At that time he served as stipendiary magistrate ({{Lang|no|byfoged}}) and chief of police.{{Cite web |title=Norsk samfunnsvitenskapelig datatjeneste (NSD) |url=http://www.nsd.uib.no/polsys/index.cfm?urlname=storting&lan=&MenuItem=N1_1&ChildItem=&State=collapse&UttakNr=33&person=12015 |access-date=2016-05-23 |website=www.nsd.uib.no |archive-date=2011-05-27 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110527143158/http://www.nsd.uib.no/polsys/index.cfm?urlname=storting&lan=&MenuItem=N1_1&ChildItem=&State=collapse&UttakNr=33&person=12015 |url-status=dead }} He then served as County Governor of Tromsøe Amt from 1869 to 1889.{{Cite web |title=Norwegian Counties |url=http://www.worldstatesmen.org/Norway_counties.html |access-date=2016-05-23 |website=www.worldstatesmen.org}}