Complex sentence: Sankey became a Lord Justice of Appeal in 1928 and was raised to the peerage as Baron Sankey, of Moreton in the County of Gloucester, in 1929; that year, he was appointed Lord Chancellor in Ramsay MacDonald's Labour government.
Split into simpler sentences: Sankey became a Lord Justice of Appeal in 1928 and was raised to the peerage as Baron Sankey, of Moreton in the County of Gloucester, in 1929. The latter year he was appointed Lord Chancellor in Ramsay MacDonald's Labour government.