Maurice Russell wsd born on 11 August 1918 and studied at the School of Architecture in Aberdeen, Scotland. He subsequently commenced practice as an architect in the late 1940s. He was elected an Associate of the Royal Institute of British Architects (ARIBA) in 1948. Between 1948 and the late-1950s he lived at times in in Colombo, Ceylon [now Sri Lanka] where he worked as an architect for the office of Herbert Henry Reid (1895-1952). By 1960 he had returned to Scotland and was working as an architect for the Glasgow practice Boswell, Mitchell & Johnston. By 1965 he had moved to Manchester and was employed in the Architects Department of John Laing Construction, with whom he remained until 1979. He retired as an architect in 1994
Russell was also a furniture designer. A photograph of an upholstered wing chair in natural beech designed by Geoffrey Dunn and Maurice Russell, and manufactured by Dunn's of Bromley, is illustrated in 'Decorative Art' vol.42, 1952-53 (p.34). Russell's work featured in 'The Modern Shop' by Brian Westwood and Norman Westwood (London: Architectural Press, 1952).
Russell died in Macclesfield, Cheshire in 1994