Complex sentence: He was well-educated and from a middle-class family, the son of a Royal Navy surgeon and brother of artist Edward Hopley; his household was fairly well-off, and he and his wife kept several servants.
Split into simpler sentences: He was well-educated and from a middle-class family, the son of a Royal Navy surgeon and brother of artist Edward Hopley. His household was fairly well-off, and he and his wife kept several servants.