Complex sentence: Montagu Burrows (27 October 1819, Hadley, England-10 July 1905, Oxford) was an officer in the Royal Navy and subsequently the first Chichele Professor of Modern History at Oxford University.
Split into simpler sentences: Montagu Burrows (27 October 1819-10 July 1905) was a British academic. After a career as an officer in the Royal Navy, he was the first Chichele Professor of Modern History at Oxford University.