Education
He was educated at Ipswich School and Pembroke Hall, Cambridge, where he matriculated as a pensioner in 1626, graduated Bachelor of Arts in 1629 and Master of Arts
He was educated at Ipswich School and Pembroke Hall, Cambridge, where he matriculated as a pensioner in 1626, graduated Bachelor of Arts in 1629 and Master of Arts
He was a native of Bury Saint Edmunds in Suffolk. in 1632, and was admitted to a fellowship on 4 February 1631, and took the degree of Master of Arts He became curate of Saint Lawrence, Ipswich, in 1643. Soon after the establishment of the Commonwealth he was ejected from his fellowship and sent a prisoner to London, where he was detained for a long time. He was subsequently in Scotland under the Marquis of Montrose.
On the Restoration he was created Doctor of Divinity at Cambridge by royal mandate.
Matthew Wren, Bishop of Ely, to whom he was chaplain, presented him to the rectory of Glemsford, Suffolk, on 15 February 1662, and also to the rectories of Westerfield and Harkstead in the same county. Wren then nominated him master of Jesus College, Cambridge, where he was admitted on 26 April 1663, and presented him to the rectory of Snailwell, Cambridgeshire, on 13 July in the same year.
Boldero was vice-chancellor of the university in 1668, when in November he forbade the use of the arguments of Descartes in disputations, and also suspended Daniel Scargill for Hobbism in disputation. And in 1674. He died at Cambridge on 5 July 1679, and was buried in Jesus College chapel.