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Doran privy council. He died in Dublin on 25 April 1697, and was buried in St. Andrew's Church.

His works are: 1. ‘Preface to the Irish New Testament,’ published in 1681 at the charge of the Hon. Robert Boyle. 2. ‘A Speech in Parliament on 4 June 1689, against the Repeal of the Acts of Settlement and Explanation.’ Printed in Archbishop King's ‘State of the Protestants of Ireland,’ edit. London, 1692, p. 401. 3. ‘A Form of Reconciliation of lapsed Protestants, and of the Admission of Romanists to our Communion,’ Dublin, 1690. Reprinted in some editions of the Book of Common Prayer. 4. ‘A Speech when the Clergy waited on King William III on 7 July 1690,’ Dublin, 1690, fol.; reprinted in the ‘Somers Tracts.’ 5. ‘Sermon on the Day of Thanksgiving for the reduction of Ireland, preached 26 Nov. 1691.’ Manuscript in Lambeth Library, 929, No. 61. 6. ‘Modus tenendi Parliamenta et Consilia in Hibernia. Published out of an antient record,’ Dublin, 1692, 1772, 12mo. This, with a preface of his own in vindication of the antiquity and authority of the document, he published from an old record then in his possession, and formerly preserved in the treasury of the city of Waterford. 7. ‘Sermon preached at Christ's Church, Dublin, November 18, 1693, at the funeral of Francis [Marsh], archbishop of Dublin,’ Dublin, 1694, 4to. 8. ‘The Case of the Dissenters of Ireland, considered in reference to the Sacramental Test,’ Dublin, 1695, folio (anon.). 9. ‘Tractatus de Visitationibus Episcopalibus,’ Dublin, 1696, 12mo. His son Anthony, born in 1695, became bishop of Ossory, and died in January 1743.

[Ware's Bishops (Harris), 160, 394; Ware's Writers (Harris), 257; Cotton's Fasti, i. p. vii, ii. 233*, 284, iii. 119***; Mant's Hist. of the Church of Ireland, i. 685, 701, 702, 732, ii. pref. pp. vii, viii, 89, 90; Shirley's Cat. of the Library at Lough Fea, 92; Killen's Eccl. Hist. of Ireland, ii. 167 n., 169, 176; Todd's Cat. of Dublin Graduates (1869), 163; Addit. MSS. 25796, f. 3, 28876, f. 162; Todd's Cat. of Lambeth MSS. 200; Taylor's Univ. of Dublin, 376; Luttrell's Relation of State Affairs, i. 587, ii. 142.]  DORAN, JOHN (1807–1878), miscellaneous writer, was born in London on 11 March 1807. Both his parents were Irish. His father, John Doran, was a native of Drogheda, county Louth. On the suppression of the rebellion of 1798 he found it expedient to pass from Ireland into England. He set up his abode in London, where he soon engaged in commerce as a contractor. A cutter in which he was visiting the fleet was taken by the French. He was detained in France for three years, and acquired a perfect knowledge of the language, which he imparted to his son. When very young the boy was sent to Matheson's Academy in Margaret Street, Cavendish Square. There in 1819 the Duke of Kent presented to him a silver medal (still preserved) having on its obverse ‘For being the first in French, geography, and elocution,’ and on its reverse, ‘To John Doran, aged twelve years.’ Before he was seventeen he had lost both father and mother. His intimate knowledge of French secured for him in the early part of 1823 an appointment as tutor to the eldest son of the first Lord Glenlyon. He travelled on the continent for five years with his pupil, George Murray, afterwards Duke of Atholl. Before leaving England Doran had begun writing on the London ‘Literary Chronicle’ (absorbed in the ‘Athenæum’ in 1828), to which during his sojourn abroad he became a regular contributor; a collection of his Parisian sketches and Paris letters, selected from its columns, appeared eventually in 1828 under the title of ‘Sketches and Reminiscences.’ At the age of seventeen he had written a melodrama, which, under the title of ‘Justice, or the Venetian Jew,’ was on 8 April 1824 produced at the Surrey Theatre. From 1828 to 1837 he was tutor to Lord Rivers, and to the sons of Lord Harewood and of Lord Portman. Doran began in 1830 to supply the ‘Bath Journal’ with lyrical translations from the French, German, Latin, and Italian, two of his favourite authors being Béranger and Catullus. On 3 July 1834 he married at Reading Emma, the daughter of Captain Gilbert, R.N., and settled down for a time in Hay-a-Park Cottage, at Knaresborough. In 1835 he published the ‘History of Reading.’ After giving up his last tutorship, Doran travelled on the continent for two or three years, and took his doctor's degree in the faculty of philosophy at the university of Marburg in Prussia. Returning to England he adopted literature as his profession, and settled in St. Peter's Square, Hammersmith. In 1841 he began his literary editorship of the ‘Church and State Gazette,’ receiving 100l. a year, with which till 1852 he appeared to be perfectly well satisfied. In 1852 he published the memoir of Marie Thérèse Charlotte, duchesse d'Angoulême, under the title of ‘Filia Dolorosa.’ The first 115 pages had been written by Mrs. Romer, who died, leaving the fragment. In 1852 he also edited a new edition of Charles Anthon's text of the Anabasis of Xenophon. In 1853 he prefixed a life of Young to a reissue of the ‘Night Thoughts,’ rewritten in 1854 for Young's complete works. Soon afterwards he became a regular contributor to the ‘Athenæum.’ He became closely