John Doran
(1807-1878), Writer and literary editorEarly Victorian Portraits Catalogue Entry
Sitter in 4 portraits
Doran worked as a tutor to George Murray, later the Duke of Atholl, and subsequently as a tutor in a number of other households. He began writing for the London Literary Chronicle and The Athenaeum. Doran turned to writing full time in the 1830s and in 1841 he became literary editor of the Church and State Gazette. He was for a short time editor of The Athenaeum. He wrote a number of books including Lives of the Queens of England of the House of Hanover (1855), and A History of Court Fools (1858), and he edited Horace Walpole's Journal of the Reign of George III.
by Herbert Watkins
albumen print, arched top, late 1850s
NPG P301(175)
by Sir Leslie Ward
watercolour, published in Vanity Fair 6 December 1873
NPG 1648
by Elliott & Fry
albumen carte-de-visite, 1860s
NPG x28097
John Doran ('Men of the Day, No. 72.')
by Sir Leslie Ward
chromolithograph, published in Vanity Fair 6 December 1873
NPG D43617
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