| Sir John Doran | |
| Birth Date: | 1824 10, df=yes |
| Birth Place: | Ireland |
| Death Place: | Surrey, England |
| Branch: | East India Company, 24th Regiment of Bengal Native Infantry |
| Rank: | General |
| Awards: | KCB |
General Sir John Doran (2 October 1824 – 25 September 1903)[1] [2] was a British Army officer from an established Irish family with links to Irish nobility. He saw extensive service in India and the North West Frontier.[3] [4] He had originally taken a commission in one of the East India Company Regiments (the 24th Regiment of Bengal Native Infantry) in 1842.[5]
In 1893, whilst serving as a senior officer (a lieutenant general) in India, Doran was knighted (KCB).[6] [7] He was promoted full general on 1 April 1894.
Doran's younger brother Robert Doran, also a British Army officer, was killed in the Second Anglo-Burmese War in 1852.[8]
Doran married Georgina Sultana Magrath in London on 13 November 1856.[9] The Dorans had four sons and four daughters; three of the sons had military careers and serve as officers in World War 1. Two retired in the rank of general. One daughter married a senior British Army officer, and another daughter served as a sister in the Army Nursing Service, and died after contracting gastritis whilst nursing at Carnarvon, Cape Colony, during the Boer War.[10]
This military family had strong links with the County Wexford in Ireland. His father was Major John Doran of Ely House, Wexford. General Doran died in Surrey, England.[11] His wife survived him by a further nine years; she died in Wexford, Ireland in 1912.[12]