Complex sentence: John Wilson CBE, MC, FRIC (1890--8 September 1976) was Director of the British Rayon Research Association from 1948 to 1958.
Split into simpler sentences: John Wilson CBE, MC, FRIC was born in 1890 and died on September 8,1976. He was Director of the British Rayon Research Association from 1948 to 1958.