Complex sentence: Marriage registered June 1889, Kensington, 1a 358 He was initially trained as a lawyer and diplomat, spending some years in Brussels where he began his first formal singing lessons at the age of 28.
Split into simpler sentences: Marriage registered June 1889, Kensington, 1a 358 He first trained as a lawyer and diplomat, spending some years in Brussels. It was there that he began formal singing lessons at the age of 28.