Complex sentence: Robert White, was a farmer's son from Kirk Yetholm, Northumberland, worked all his life in a brass foundry in Newcastle, yet was an avid researcher into Northumberland legends, folk law and folk songs, writing regularly for local newspapers on local matters.
Split into simpler sentences: Robert White, was a farmer's son from Kirk Yetholm, Northumberland, worked all his life in a brass foundry in Newcastle. He was an avid researcher into Northumberland legends, folk law and folk songs, writing regularly for local newspapers on local matters.