Complex sentence: In 2001, on the recommendation of the House of Lords Appointments Commission, he was created a life peer, Baron May of Oxford, of Oxford in the County of Oxfordshire, one of the first fifteen peers to be elevated in this way.
Split into simpler sentences: In 2001, on the recommendation of the House of Lords Appointments Commission, he was created a life peer. He was one of the first fifteen peers to be elevated in this way.