Complex sentence: Through Elliston, Matcham met William J. Revill, the proprietor of the People's Temperance Hall in Stockport, who contracted Matcham to draw up designs for a new building after the hall caught fire in 1887.
Split into simpler sentences: Through Elliston, Matcham became introduced to William J. Revill, the proprietor of the People's Temperance Hall in Stockport. Revill contracted Matcham to draw up designs for a new building after the hall was destroyed by a fire in 1887.