Benjamin Pryor Stockman
Civil Engineer
c.1823 Born in Middlesex[1]
1843-47 Apprenticed at the Pimlico Works of Messrs Bramah
1847-49 Assistant engineer on the East Anglian Railway
1849-50 Worked for the River Lea Trust
1850-51 Worked on construction of a bridge at St. Haves
Designed machinery for Messrs Napier's and for Messrs H and M D Grissell
1853 Working under G. R. Stephenson
1853 Living in New Cross. Application to join the Institution of Civil Engineers
1881 Civil engineer, living in Wandsworth with his wife Mary (b.1825) and 5 children[2]