Complex sentence: In January of the next year his father secured for him a clerkship in the Department of Lands; he transferred to the Supreme Court in 1876 and was admitted as a solicitor on February 25 1882.
Split into simpler sentences: In January of the next year, his father secured for him a clerkship in the Department of Lands. He transferred to the Supreme Court in 1876 and was admitted as a solicitor on February 25 1882.