Complex sentence: Sir Charles Wilkins (1749?-1836), English Orientalist, was born at Frome, Somersetshire, probably in 1749, and in 1770 he went to India as a writer in the East India Company's service.
Split into simpler sentences: Sir Charles Wilkins (1749?-1836), was an English Orientalist. He was born at Frome in Somerset, probably in 1749, and in 1770 he went to India as a writer in the East India Company's service.