Benjamin Hick (1 August 1790 – 9 September 1842) was an English civil and mechanical engineer, art collector and patron. He was born at Huddersfield, and christened in the Independent chapel at Highfield, his parents moving shortly afterwards to Leeds where he was educated.Hick's aptitude for mechanics and passion for drawing led to an apprentiship in 1804 (age 14) as a draughtsman with Fenton, Murray and Wood at the Round Foundry in Holbeck.