Complex sentence: Akenside was born at Newcastle upon Tyne, England, the son of a butcher; he was slightly lame all his life from a wound he received as a child from his father's cleaver.
Split into simpler sentences: Akenside was born at Newcastle upon Tyne, England, the son of a butcher. He was slightly lame all his life from a wound he received as a child from his father's cleaver.