Edmund Bruce Ball

Edmund Bruce Ball FRSE (21 May 1873 – 17 June 1944) was an English hydraulic engineer.

He was educated in Thetford and then apprenticed as an engineer to Charles Burrell & Sons in that towns.

[2] On completion of this apprenticeship in 1895, Ball was elected a Whitworth Exhibitioner[2] and also received a Queen’s Prizeman for Science.

[3] He had a very successful career, starting as Chief Designer for Benjamin Goodfellow & Co in Hyde, Manchester.

He died of a heart attack at his home, Eldo House, in Monkton, Ayrshire in 1944.