Complex sentence: On April 2,1853, he was given the Freedom of the City of Edinburgh, Gilbert, W.M., "Edinburgh in the Nineteenth Century", Edinburgh, 1901: 124 and in 1855, he was made a Knight of the Garter.
Split into simpler sentences: On April 2,1853, he was given the Freedom of the City of Edinburgh. In 1855, he was made a Knight of the Garter.