Complex sentence: Sir Edgar Charles Beck CBE (1911-2000) was a civil engineer, managing director, chairman then president of Mowlem, one of the largest construction and civil engineering companies in the United Kingdom.
Split into simpler sentences: Sir Edgar Charles Beck CBE (1911--2000) was a British civil engineer. He was managing director, chairman then president of Mowlem, one of the largest construction and civil engineering companies in the United Kingdom.