DORAN, JOHN (1807-1878), English author, was born in London of Irish parentage. He succeeded Hepworth Dixon as editor of The Athenaeum for a short time in 1869, until he became editor of Notes and Queries in 187o. His most elaborate work, Their Majesties' Servants, a history of the English stage from Betterton to Kean, was published in 186o, and was supple mented by In and About Drury Lane, which was written for Temple Bar and was not published in book form till 1885. Among his other works may be mentioned The History of Court Fools (1858), The Last Journals of Horace Walpole (1859), London in Jacobite Times (1877), and Memories of our Great Totvns (1878).