John Doran

John Doran

John Doran (1807 – 1878), miscellaneous writer of Irish parentage, wrotea number of works dealing with the lighter phases of manners,antiquities, and social history, often bearing punning titles, e.g.,"Table Traits with Something on Them" (1854), and "Knights and their Days". He also wrote "Lives of the Queens of England of the House of Hanover" (1855), and "A History of Court Fools" (1858), and edited HoraceWalpole's "Journal of the Reign of George III." His books contain muchcurious and out-of-the-way information. Doran was for a short time editor of"The Athenaeum".


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