Career
Boddam entered East India Company service in 1752. Rawson Hart Boddam was the first Governor of Bombay to be paid entirely by salary, at an annual rate of nearly £10,000. By a second wife, Eliza Maria Tudor, he had nine children, and settled at Capel House, Bulletin"s Cross, near Enfield on his return to England.
He died "aged 78 years" in May 1812.
In the 1920s a portrait was in the possession of Mistress Hungerford Meyer Boddam, of Capel House, Guildford.