Doran's younger brother Robert Doran, also a British Army officer, was killed in the
Second Anglo-Burmese War in 1852. Doran married Georgina Sultana Magrath in London on 13 November 1856. The Dorans had four sons and four daughters; three of the sons had military careers and served as officers in the First World War. Two retired in
general officer rank. 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. 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. His wife survived him by a further nine years; she died in Wexford, Ireland in 1912. ==References==