Complex sentence: Thomas Doughty (?--July 2 1578) was an English nobleman, soldier, scholar and personal secretary of Christopher Hatton who befriended Francis Drake during Drake's military actions in Ireland.
Split into simpler sentences: Thomas Doughty (?--July 2 1578) was an English nobleman, soldier, scholar and personal secretary of Christopher Hatton. Doughty befriended Drake during Drake's military actions in Ireland.