Complex sentence: John Chippendall Montesquieu Bellew (1823--1874) was an English author, preacher, and public reader, was born at Lancaster on 3 August 1823.
Split into simpler sentences: John Chippendall Montesquieu Bellew (1823--1874) was an English author, preacher, and public reader. Bellew was born at Lancaster on 3 August 1823.