Complex sentence: Gissing was born on 22 November 1857 in Wakefield, Yorkshire the eldest child of Thomas Waller Gissing, a pharmaceutical chemist, and Margaret née Bedford.
Split into simpler sentences: Gissing was born on 22 November 1857 in Wakefield, Yorkshire. He was the first child born to Thomas Waller Gissing, a pharmaceutical chemist, and Margaret née Bedford.