Complex sentence: This fitted with Johnstone's reputation for enjoying the good life, a lover of books, furniture and pictures, being good fun and good company and not being a great exponent of taking exercise Jo Grimond, Memoirs 1979 (p.69).
Split into simpler sentences: This fitted with Johnstone's reputation for enjoying the good life. He was known as a lover of books, furniture and pictures, being good fun and good company and not being a great exponent of taking exercise Jo Grimond, Memoirs 1979 (p.69).