remembrancer

From remembrance + -er.

remembrancer (plural remembrancers)

1. A person who reminds someone.
   • 1771, Tobias Smollett, Humphry Clinker, Penguin Classics, published 1985, page 77:

     I wonder, Dick, you did not put me in mind of sending for my own mattresses - But, if I had not been an ass, I should not have needed a remembrancer.

   • 1951, John Wyndham, The Day of the Triffids, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, published 1954, page 105:

     "Sandra Telmont," he explained. "Sandra is our professional remembrancer - continuity is her usual work, so we regard it as particularly thoughtful of providence to contrive her presence here just now."

   • 1976 September, Saul Bellow, Humboldt’s Gift, New York, N.Y.: Avon Books, →ISBN, page 387:

     Tribal chieftains in Africa had had official remembrancers about them; I was Ulick's remembrancer.

2. A memento or souvenir.
   • 1766, Oliver Goldsmith, chapter 3, in The Vicar of Wakefield:

     Near a fortnight had passed before I attempted to restrain their affliction; for premature consolation is but the remembrancer of sorrow.

3. A recorder, or municipal judge.
4. An officer of exchequer.
5. (UK politics) Alternative letter-case form of Remembrancer: an official of the City of London Corporation.
   • [2011 October 31, George Monbiot, “The medieval, unaccountable Corporation of London is ripe for protest”, in The Guardian‎^[1], →ISSN:

     In one respect at least the Corporation acts as the superior body: it imposes on the House of Commons a figure called the remembrancer: an official lobbyist who sits behind the Speaker's chair and ensures that, whatever our elected representatives might think, the City's rights and privileges are protected.]