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]
Sir John Doran | |
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Born | Ireland | 2 October 1824
Died | 25 September 1903 Surrey, England | (aged 78)
Service/ | East India Company, 24th Regiment of Bengal Native Infantry |
Rank | General |
Awards | KCB |
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.[8]
Doran's younger brother Robert Doran, also a British Army officer, was killed in the Second Anglo-Burmese War in 1852.[9]
Doran married Georgina Sultana Magrath in London on 13 November 1856.[10] 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.[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]