chronicler (n.)
- annalist
- autobiographer
- biographer
- clockmaker
- diarist
- genealogist
- historian
- historiographer
- horologist
- timekeeper
- timer
- watchmaker
After my death I wish no other herald,
No other speaker of my living actions,
To keep mine honour from corruption,
But such an honest chronicler as Griffith.
They are the abstract and brief chronicles of the time: after your death you were better have a bad epitaph than their ill report while you live.