Complex sentence: Colvin returned to England in 1838 and married Josephine Puget Baker; the sister of his colleague and friend William Erskine Baker at Ludlow and was also made a Companion of the Order of the Bath.
Split into simpler sentences: Colvin returned to England in 1838 and married Josephine Puget Baker, the sister of his colleague and friend William Erskine Baker at Ludlow. He was also made a Companion of the Order of the Bath.