Complex sentence: His father, John Munro took great pains with his son's education and purportedly started the medical school at Edinburgh with the specific intention of creating an institution where he could train his son.
Split into simpler sentences: His father, John Munro took great pains with his son's education. As such, John Munro purportedly started the medical school at Edinburgh with the specific intention of creating an institution where he could train his son.