He took orders immediately; and after holding one or two curacies, and taking pupils, he became curate to the Rev.
In 1863 he assumed the principalship of the newly instituted London College of Divinity, at first located in a private house at Kilburn, where the principal entered upon his task with a single student.
Two years afterwards it was moved to St. John's Hall, Highbury, and the number of pupils rose to fifty or sixty.
in 1872, and in October 1883 received from the Bishop of London, Dr. John Jackson, the prebendal stall of Eadland in St. Paul's Cathedral.
Boultbee died at Bournemouth on 30 Jan. 1884, and was buried at Chesham, Buckinghamshire, of which his youngest son was vicar.