Complex sentence: Nicholas Boson (1624-1708), writer in, and preserver of, the Cornish language, was born in Newlyn to a landowning and merchant family involved in the pilchard fisheries.
Split into simpler sentences: Nicholas Boson (1624-1708) was a writer in, and preserver of, the Cornish language. He was born in Newlyn to a landowning and merchant family involved in the pilchard fisheries.