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Where does the name Big Ben derive from?

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Where does the name Big Ben derive from?

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Big Ben is actually the bell inside the Great Westminster Clock tower, not the clock itself. The bell was reportedly nicknamed for Sir Benjamin Hall, former Commissioner of Works under Queen Victoria. (Its official name is the Great Bell.