Complex sentence: He became an architect and surveyor, based in Chancery Lane in London, and by 1885 he was living in Clapham, and a member of the Wandsworth District Board of Works and of the Clapham, Stockwell, and South Lambeth Water Consumers' Defence Association.
Split into simpler sentences: He became an architect and surveyor, based in Chancery Lane in London. By 1885 he was living in Clapham, and a member of the Wandsworth District Board of Works and of the Clapham, Stockwell, and South Lambeth Water Consumers' Defence Association.