Complex sentence: The school was named after Ernest Bevin (1881--1951), a British labour leader and politician, following the merger of the two adjacent schools of Bec Grammar and Hillcroft Secondary Modern in 1970.
Split into simpler sentences: The school was named after Ernest Bevin (1881--1951), a British labour leader and politician. It was formed through merging the two adjacent schools of Bec Grammar and Hillcroft Secondary Modern in 1970.