Complex sentence: Following the sale of the family library to finance the scheme in the summer of 1877 he purchased Woburn Park, the ancestral home of the Southcote family, something over a of rich land on the River Thames, near Weybridge in Surrey.
Split into simpler sentences: Following the sale of the family library to finance the scheme. In the summer of 1877 he purchased Woburn Park, the ancestral home of the Southcote family, something over a of rich land on the River Thames, near Weybridge in Surrey.