Complex sentence: He settled in Bel Air, a hamlet close to Baltimore, where he built a farm which he named Tudor Hall, raised his kids, and passed on his talents to them, for he had been every bit the rival of Edmund Kean in his homeland.
Split into simpler sentences: He settled in Bel Air, a hamlet close to Baltimore, where he built a farm which he named Tudor Hall, and raised his kids. And passed on to them his talents, for he had been every bit the rival of Edmund Kean in his homeland.