Complex sentence: This view was exemplified in 1911 when the immensely wealthy Duke of Sutherland acting in a whim wished to dispose of Trentham Hall, a vast Italianate palace in Staffordshire, after failing to offload the house onto a local authority, he decided to demolish it.
Split into simpler sentences: This view was exemplified in 1911 when the immensely wealthy Duke of Sutherland acting on a whim wished to dispose of Trentham Hall, a vast Italianate palace in Staffordshire. After failing to offload the house onto a local authority, he decided to demolish it.