Complex sentence: Buchanan was born in 1907 in Simla, India, a descendant of a long line of Scottish civil engineers, he was educated at Berkhamsted School in Hertfordshire, before studying engineering at Imperial College, London.
Split into simpler sentences: Buchanan was born in 1907 in Simla, India, a descendant of a long line of Scottish civil engineers. He was educated at Berkhamsted School in Hertfordshire, before studying engineering at Imperial College, London.