He is not the precursor but the inauguratorof the era.
Lorenzo de' Medici was the last apologist for the mother speech, as he was the first and chief inaugurator of the age when such apologies were no longer to be needed.
Darwin was certainly the great inaugurator of the evolutionary movement in England.
In his brooding sympathy with the downtrodden he was a great inaugurator of the social movement.
The inaugurator of this science, Swammerdam, has discovered that the grub already contains the nymph; nay more, even the butterfly.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "inaugurator" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.