Complex sentence: Howard Davies was educated at Bowker Vale County Primary School and Manchester Grammar School before going to the Memorial University of Newfoundland and Merton College, Oxford University, where he gained an MA in modern history and modern languages.
Split into simpler sentences: Howard Davies was educated at Bowker Vale County Primary School, before entering Manchester Grammar School. He then went to the Memorial University of Newfoundland and Merton College, Oxford, where he gained an MA in Modern History and Modern Languages.