necrologistn.

1803 Naval Chron. 10 177 The necrologist has every previous collection before him.

1856 U.S. Democratic Rev. Jan. 48 Good men..sorrow that the house, which..shall be the house of prayer, has been made by the necrologists of the new dispensation, a den of thieves.

1894 Cycl. Rev. Current Hist. (U.S.) 4 967 An attempt to describe..might almost be spared his immediate necrologist.

1926 Sci. Monthly June 481/1 Marsh, who had been the first to interest Peabody in the scientific movement at Yale, was born in Lockport, N. Y., and the Yale necrologist tells us: [etc.].

1966 V. Nabokov Speak, Memory (U.S. rev. ed.) iii. 55 He was one of the most eminent composers of his time, and even the greatest, according to local necrologists touched by his royal patron's grief.

1998 Guardian 20 July ii. 5/4 I was soon introduced to better verse on this subject than the doggerel of the anonymous necrologist of St. Mary's.