John Doran (British Army officer)

General Sir John Doran KCB (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] His In 1893, whilst serving as a senior officer (a lieutenant general) in India he was knighted (KCB).^[6][7] He was promoted full general on 1 April 1894.^[8]

His younger brother Robert Doran also a British Army officer was killed in the Second Anglo-Burmese War in 1852^[9].

He married Georgina Sultana Magrath in London on 13 November 1856.^[10] The Dorans would have four sons and four daughters; three of the sons would have military careers and serve as officers in World War 1. Two would retire in the rank of general. One daughter would marry a senior British Army officer, and another daughter would serve as a sister in the Army Nursing Service, and died after contracting gastritis whilst nursing at Carnarvon, Cape Colony, during the Boer War^[11].

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^[12]. His wife survived him by a further nine years; she died in Wexford, Ireland in 1912^[13].

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