memorialist

American  

[muh-mawr-ee-uh-list, -mohr-] / məˈmɔr i ə lɪst, -ˈmoʊr- /

noun

1. a person who writes memorials.

2. a person who writes memoirs.

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memorialist British  

/ mɪˈmɔːrɪəlɪst /

noun

1. a person who writes or presents a memorial

2. a writer of a memoir or memoirs

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Etymology

Origin of memorialist

First recorded in 1700–10; memorial + -ist

Example Sentences

In Brooklyn, N.Y., 1,300 grave markers have been taken from Most Holy Trinity Cemetery, according to memorialist Michael Hirsch.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 14, 2026

That your memorialist is a native of Africa, and has a knowledge of the manners and customs of the inhabitants of that country.

From Slate • Jun. 3, 2015

That your memorialist, to his great grief and astonishment, received a letter of dismission from the Honourable Commissioners of the Navy, by your Lordships' orders;

From Slate • Jun. 3, 2015

Serge Klarsfeld, the country's most famous Nazi hunter and Holocaust memorialist, expressed his indignation in the name of the Association of Sons and Daughters of Jews Deported from France.

From The Guardian • Jan. 31, 2011

Your memorialist, therefore, is encouraged most respectfully to solicit your Royal Highness to represent his case—a case of peculiar and unprecedented hardship—to his most Sacred Majesty, and to advocate his cause.

From The Life of Thomas, Lord Cochrane, Tenth Earl of Dundonald, Vol. II by Dundonald, Thomas Barnes Cochrane, Earl of