memorIalIst

[Eng. memorial; -ist.] 1. One who writes a memorial or memorials. 2. One who draws up and presents a memorial to a person or body in authority; one who signs a memorial. 13. A writer or compiler of memoirs; a memoir ist. "The memorialists of the reign of Louis XVI. will best convey to the reader a notion of the last days of George IV. " - Lytton : Go dolphin , ch. lv.