Benjamin Conner (engineer)

Benjamin Conner (1864 - 1940) was a Scottish architect, engineer and civil engineer..
Conner was born in Glasgow in 1864 and died in the city's Western Infirmary on 23rd October 1940. Son of Benjamin Conner, locomotive engineer and Helen Dick, he had 4 siblings James (born 1854), Cristina (born 1858), Alexander (born 1860) and William (born 1867). Conner married Anna Arthur Yule of Hyndland, Glasgow on 9th June 1903. His death, aged 75, was the result of intercranial haemorrhaging and other injuries sustained from a road accident with a lorry
Conner studied at Glasgow Technical College. After college he started as an apprentice at J Copeland & Co, a Glasgow company of engineers, millwrights and boilermakers, on 6 August 1883. He stayed with J Copeland & Co until 30 September 1886 serving one year in shop fitting and two in the drawing office. He then joined the Caledonian Railway Company at their Locomotive Works. Conner was under the supervision of Dugald Drummond from 12 October 1886 until 30 November 1888. On 3 December 1888 he entered the civil engineering department of the Caledonian Railway Company as an assistant to Robert Dundas working on designing steel bridges and structures, stone buildings, retaining walls and general railway infrastructure. Dundas would go on to propose Conner for the Institution of Civil Engineers on 7 October 1896. Conner would be come an associate member of the institution on 8 December 1896.
In 1902 Conner had a practice at 196 St. Vincent Street Glasgow where he designed a first floor extension of the Arlington Baths Club for the Glasgow Swimming Bath Co Ltd..

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