Original sentence: Sir Patrick Alphonsus Buckley (1841–18 May, 1896) was a New Zealand soldier, lawyer, statesman, and judge who held several high government posts in Wellington in the early 1890s
Edited sentence: Sir Patrick Alphonsus Buckley (1841 – 18 May, 1896) was a New Zealand soldier, lawyer, statesman, and judge who held several high government posts in Wellington in the early 1890s