Complex sentence: He was born at Cartmel Fell in Lancashire, the son of the academic W. G. Collingwood, and was educated at Rugby School and at University College, Oxford, where he read Greats.
Split into simpler sentences: He was born at Cartmel Fell in Lancashire, the son of the academic W. G. Collingwood. R.G. Collingwood was educated at Rugby School and at University College, Oxford, where he read Greats.