Complex sentence: Charles Wells, after whom the brewery is named, was born in Bedford in 1842; he left school at the age of 14 and ran away to sea by boarding the frigate'Devonshire' which was bound for India.
Split into simpler sentences: Charles Wells, after whom the brewery is named, was born in Bedford in 1842. Wells left school at the age of 14 he left school and boarded the frigate'Devonshire' which was bound for India.