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

Norway

Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...

 politician.

He was born in Aker

Aker, Norway

Aker is a former municipality in Akershus, which lends its name to a municipality and a county in Norway. The name originally belonged to a farm which was located near the current Old Aker Church...

 as the oldest son of bishop Peder Christian Hersleb Kjerschow

Peder Christian Hersleb Kjerschow

Peder Christian Hersleb Kjerschow was a Norwegian clergyman.He was a bishop in the State Church of Norway for twenty-seven years; first in the Diocese of Tromsø from 1830 to 1848 and later in the Diocese of Bjørgvin from 1848 to 1857. Before his appointment as bishop, he was vicar in Aker...

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

Jacob Andreas Michelsen

Jacob Andreas Michelsen was a Norwegian businessperson and politician, also known as the father of Christian Michelsen.He was the son of Tollach Michelsen, a manual laborer with roots in the Egersund district. Tollach's wife Madsi Magdalena Eide came from the same social background.In June 1855...

, and was the mother of Christian Michelsen

Christian Michelsen

Peter Christian Hersleb Kjerschow Michelsen was a Norwegian shipping magnate and statesman. He was the first Prime Minister of an independent Norway from 1905 to 1907...

. Christian Kjerschow was also a maternal grandson of mining director Christian Ancher Collett

Christian Ancher Collett

Christian Ancher Collett was a Norwegian engineer.He was born as the oldest child of Peter Collett and Johanne Henriche Ancher. He had two older half-siblings, as well as eight younger siblings, of whom one died before reaching the age of one.He married Anna Karine Bie . The couple had five children...

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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 Norwegian Parliament in 1868. At that time he served as stipendiary magistrate (byfoged) and chief of police. He then served as County Governor of Tromsøe Amt (Troms) from 1869 to 1889.