Complex sentence: He was elected Member of Parliament for Barnstaple in 1747 and went to Bremen, Hamburg and Lübeck in 1752 as a delegate for the'Society for Carrying on the Herring Fishery'.
Split into simpler sentences: He was elected Member of Parliament for Barnstaple in 1747. In 1752 he went to Bremen, Hamburg and Lübeck as a delegate for the'Society for Carrying on the Herring Fishery'.