Complex sentence: He was in 1931 appointed as governor general by King George V, on the recommendation of British Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald, to replace the Earl of Willingdon as viceroy, and occupied that post until succeeded by the Lord Tweedsmuir in 1935.
Split into simpler sentences: He was in 1931 appointed as governor general by King George V, on the recommendation of British Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald, to replace the Earl of Willingdon as viceroy. Bessborough occupied that post until succeeded by the Lord Tweedsmuir in 1935.