He was admitted to St John's College, Cambridge as a scholar on 9 November 1568 and was matriculated as a pensioner.
[3] He was made junior bursar of his college on 27 January 1581–2,[4] and was appointed as minister of St. Mary's Church, Bury St. Edmunds in the same year, his first degree in divinity.
He was appointed by the municipality as vicar of St Mary's Church, Warwick on 11 January 1590–1, as successor to Leonard Fetherston.
[7] The authors of Athenæ Cantabrigienses identified Boardman as the writer of some English commendatory verses, to which the initials A.
B. are subscribed, prefixed to Thomas Morley's (1597) Plaine and Easie Introduction to Practicall Musicke, though the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography judges that "the attribution seems highly unlikely".