The son of the first-class cricketer Robert Boddington and his wife Constance Mary Cornall, he was born at Hale, Cheshire.
[1] He played for the school in their centenary match in 1941 against the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC), marking a hundred years since the MCC played a Rugby School side captained by Thomas Hughes.
[1] After leaving Rugby School, Boddington briefly served in the Royal Air Force, during which he played for the Royal Air Force cricket team in a first-class cricket match against Worcestershire at Worcester in 1946.
[4] He later moved to Burford in Oxfordshire, where he owned a farm on which he bred pigs and race horses.
He held several administrative positions, including as president of the English Golf Union.