Thorkild Fjeldsted

Thorkild Jonsson Fjeldsted (1740 – 19 November 1796) (Icelandic name Þorkell Jónsson Fjeldsted) Icelandic lawyer, practised law in Copenhagen from 1763 to 1769, and from 1769 to 1772, he was Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands.

After that, he moved to Norway. From 1771 he was county governor of Finmarkens amt, then county governor of Bornholm and from 1780 of Christianssand amt. In 1786 he became a county governor of Trondheim amt. He died in Copenhagen.

References

• Løgtingið 150 – Hátíðarrit. Tórshavn 2002, Bind 2, S. 366. (Avsnitt Føroya løgmenn fram til 1816) (PDF-Download)

Prime Ministers of the Faroe Islands before 1816 Gilli  Sjúrður  Símun  Dagfinnur Halvdanarson  Haraldur Kálvsson  Roald  Jørundur Skógdrívsson  Tórmóður Sigurðsson  Andras Guttormsson  Guttormur Andrasson  Jógvan Heinason  Ísak Guttormsson  Pætur Jákupsson  Tummas Símunarson  Zakarias Tormóðsson  Jógvan Justinusson  Jógvan Poulsen  Balzer Jacobsen  Jógvan Poulsen  Jákup Jógvansson  Jóhan Hendrik Weyhe  Sámal Pætursson Lamhauge  Hans Jákupsson Debes  Thorkild Fjeldsted  Jacob Hveding  Johan Michael Lund  Jørgen Frantz Hammershaimb