Complex sentence: In 1938, he married Mary Duffil, widow of Albert Duffil, daughter of G. W. Booker of Los Angeles, and succeeded his father in the peerage and baronetcy in 1944.
Split into simpler sentences: In 1938, he married Mary Duffil, widow of Albert Duffil, daughter of G. W. Booker of Los Angeles. Lord Essendon succeeded his father in the peerage and baronetcy in 1944.