Complex sentence: Unlike most parents of the Victorian era, the parents of Rhys-Davids spent a great deal of their time with their children, although they employed a child minder named Minna, a German woman.
Split into simpler sentences: Unlike most parents of the Victorian era, the parents of Rhys-Davids spent a great deal of their time with their children. The couple still employed a child minder named Minna, a German woman.