Complex sentence: The son of an usher in a charity school, Cleveland was born in Loughborough, and educated at Hinckley Grammar School and the University of Cambridge, where he became college tutor and lecturer on rhetoric at St John's College, and was much sought after.
Split into simpler sentences: The son of an usher in a charity school, Cleveland was born in Loughborough, and educated at Hinckley Grammar School. At St John's Cleveland became college tutor and lecturer on rhetoric, and was much sought after.