Complex sentence: Sir John Snell (1629--6 August 1679), founder of the Snell Exhibitions at the University of Oxford, was born in Ayrshire, Scotland, the son of a blacksmith.
Split into simpler sentences: Sir John Snell (1629--6 August 1679), founder of the Snell Exhibitions at the University of Oxford. He was born in Ayrshire, Scotland, the son of a blacksmith.