Complex sentence: He was the Liberal Democrat Member of Parliament for Southport from 1987 to 1992 and 1997 to 2001 and received after this a life peerage as Baron Fearn, of Southport in the County of Merseyside in 2001.
Split into simpler sentences: He was the Liberal Democrat Member of Parliament for Southport from 1987 to 1992 and 1997 to 2001. He subsequently received a life peerage and joined the House of Lords as Baron Fearn, of Southport in the County of Merseyside, in 2001.