Complex sentence: Born in Solihull, the son of Thomas Forster by his marriage to Edna Russell, Forster was educated at the town's Tudor Grange Grammar School and Merton College, Oxford, where he graduated BA in chemistry, promoted to Master of Arts in 1973.
Split into simpler sentences: Born in Solihull, the son of Thomas Forster by his marriage to Edna Russell, Forster was educated at the town's Tudor Grange Grammar School. He studied at Merton College, Oxford, where he graduated with a BA in chemistry, promoted to Master of Arts in 1973.