Complex sentence: David Winton Thomas (26 January 1901--18 June 1970) was Regius Professor of Hebrew at the University of Cambridge from 1938 to 1968.
Split into simpler sentences: David Winton Thomas (26 January 1901--18 June 1970) was a British scholar of Hebrew. He was Regius Professor of Hebrew at the University of Cambridge from 1938 to 1968.