Complex sentence: The son of Oliver Bodington international lawyer and Mary (nee Redner), he was born in Paris and studied at Cheltenham College and (for a year) at Lincoln College, Oxford before becoming a journalist, working from 1930 onwards for the Daily Express.
Split into simpler sentences: The son of Oliver Bodington international lawyer and Mary (nee Redner), he was born in Paris. His elder brother was John Redner Bodington DSO MC a soldier in World War I. Nicholas Bodington studied at Cheltenham College and (for a year) at Lincoln College, Oxford before becoming a journalist, working from 1930 onwards for the Daily Express.