Complex sentence: Cedric Russell Marshall, CNZM (known as Russell Marshall, born at Nelson 1936) was a New Zealand politician of the Labour Party, who had been a Methodist minister from 1960 to 1972, and school teacher 1955--56 and 1972.
Split into simpler sentences: Cedric Russell Marshall, CNZM (born at Nelson 1936), known as Russell Marshall, was a New Zealand politician of the Labour Party. He was a Methodist minister from 1960 to 1972, and school teacher 1955--1956 and 1972.