Samuel Bridgman Russell
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Samuel Bridgman Russell (9 August 1864 – 2 August 1955) was a Scottish architect who became chief architect to the Ministry of Health and after the Tudor Walters Report and the Housing, Town Planning, &c. Act 1919 designed to a series of model houses, which were copied extensively throughout the United Kingdom in the council estates of the 1920s and 1930s.[1]
Born in 1864, Russell had been articled to Henry Hewitt Bridgman 1881–84 and had studied at the Royal Academy Schools from 1882, thereafter becoming a draughtsman in the office of Thomas Chatfield Clarke, who designed the Royal Bank of Scotland building in Bishopsgate, London. He entered partnership with James Glen Sivewright Gibson in 1890. The partnership of Gibson and Russell was dissolved in 1899, Russell entering into partnership with Edwin Cooper.[2]
