Complex sentence: The young Lancelot spent his early years in Ramsgate, Kent, but was orphaned at age nine, following the deaths of his mother from tuberculosis in 1892 and his father a year and a half later.
Split into simpler sentences: The young Lancelot spent his early years in Ramsgate, Kent. He was orphaned at age nine, following the deaths of his mother from tuberculosis in 1892 and his father a year and a half later.