After teaching in Salzburg, he was Master in College at Eton, then Warden of Forest School, Walthamstow.
He was chairman of the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference and also a former Master of the Worshipful Company of Skinners.
[1][2] Boggis taught in Salzburg, then was an assistant master at Hitchin Boys' School for a year.
Boggis was a member of the Independent Schools Examination Board from 1992 to 2001, chairing its Languages Committee for four years, a member of the Court of the University of Essex from 1997 to 2004, and of the Education Committee of the English Speaking Union from 2004 to 2010.
In Who's Who Boggis lists his recreations as "Music, cookery, reading, Austria, and rearing pigs".