ocr: Big Ben, United Kingdom About Big Ben The photograph: at the left shows the Clock lower of the Houses of Parliament inLondon. Although people all over the world refer to this structure as Big Ben, that name actually belongs to the great bell located inside the tower. How did it get its name? A man named Sir Benjamin Hall was the commissioner of works at the time the bell was installed in 1859.His BIG BEN nickname was Big Ben, and so members ofl Parliament named the bell after him.