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, 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

That your Lordships' memorialist was, by the Honourable the Commissioners of his Majesty's Navy, on the 4th of December last, appointed to the above employment by warrant from that board;

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

As illustrating the state of the rural regions, the memorialist instanced the case of Bitchu, a province on the Inland Sea, where he held an official appointment in the year 893.

From A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era by Brinkley, F. (Frank)