[Almon], the Revolution in MDCCLXXXII

John Almon was born in Liverpool on 17 December 1737. From 1759, after a period at sea, he was a printer and writer in London. His earliest writings in the Gazetteer supported Newcastle and Pitt, and he authored the anti-Bute A Review of Mr Pitt’s Administration, dedicated to Richard Grenville-Temple, Earl Temple, Pitt’s brother-in-law. Almon also published the Remembrancer, or, Impartial Repository of Public Events in America from 1775 to 1784. His interest in America is reflected in the fact that his press published many pamphlets on the subject from various perspectives, notwithstanding Almon’s own passionate partisanship. Thomas Paine recommended to Benjamin Franklin that The American Crisis be sent to Almon because others would censor its republican sympathies.