Complex sentence: Inheriting substantial Irish estates when his father died, Ellis contemplated entering Parliament as a whig under the patronage of Sir William Napier: his courtship of one of Napier's daughters unfortunately ended in some confusion, and Ellis never married.
Split into simpler sentences: Inheriting substantial Irish estates when his father died, Ellis contemplated entering Parliament as a whig under Sir William Napier's patronage. Yet his courtship of one of Napier's daughters unfortunately ended in some confusion, and Ellis never married.