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.
[9] Doran married Georgina Sultana Magrath in London on 13 November 1856.
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 Second 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.