commemorator

In some cases, it is the documentarian, the commemorator, who becomes a cultural icon.

Kristen Paglia: Arts Education Makes America Stronger by Making Stronger Americans Kristen Paglia 2011

In some cases, it is the documentarian, the commemorator, who becomes a cultural icon.

Kristen Paglia: Arts Education Makes America Stronger by Making Stronger Americans Kristen Paglia 2011

Atlan has assumed the traditional role of Jewish intellectual as preserver of memory and commemorator of catastrophe.

Liliane Atlan. 2009

He died in 1633, and his name was Greenhill, which inspired his commemorator with a motto for his brass, "Mors super virides montes," and ten curious lines: --

Highways and Byways in Surrey Eric Parker 1912

He spent a happy week in that bright circle, in which the present commemorator has often since moved, and heard members of it over and over again describe its happy scenes; sometimes, the younger sister, my own especial friend; at other times the animated brother.

Thaddeus of Warsaw Jane Porter 1813

Its name of "The Bridal Veil" is one of the few successes in fantastic nomenclature; for, to one viewing it in profile, its snowy sheet, broken into the filmy silver lace of spray and falling quite free of the brow of the precipice, might well seem the veil worn by the earth at her granite wedding, -- no commemorator of any fifty-years 'bagatelle like the golden one, but crowning the one-millionth anniversary of her nuptials.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 80, June, 1864 Various

Israel Potter seems purposely to have waited to make his, popular advent under the present exalted patronage, seeing that your Highness, according to the definition above, may, in the loftiest sense, be deemed the Great Biographer: the national commemorator of such of the anonymous privates of June 17, 1775, who may never have received other requital than the solid reward of your granite.

Israel Potter Herman Melville 1855