Education
He was educated at Westminster School, and was then elected to a scholarship at Christ Church, Oxford (Bachelor 1609, Master of Arts 1612).
He was educated at Westminster School, and was then elected to a scholarship at Christ Church, Oxford (Bachelor 1609, Master of Arts 1612).
Boughen was a native of Buckinghamshire. He was appointed chaplain to John Howson, bishop of Oxford. He afterwards held a cure at Bray in Berkshire.
And on 13 April 1633 was collated to the rectory of Woodchurch in Kent.
He then returned to Oxford, where he was created Doctor of Divinity on 1 July 1646, shortly before the surrender of the garrison to the parliamentary forces. He later lived at Chartham in Kent.
Anthony Wood wrote: "This Doctor Boughen, as I have been informed, lived to see his majesty restored, and what before he had lost, he did obtain". And Baker also states that "Boughen died soon after the Restoration, aged 74, plus minus".
lieutenant is not improbable that he is identical with the Edward Boughen, prebendary of Marden in the church of Chichester, whose death occurred between 29 May and 11 August 1660.