Career
Boreham was born in Tunbridge Wells, Kent, and educated at St Aidan's College, Birkenhead and St John's Hall, Durham.[1] He served as a missionary in Mianyang (formerly spelt Mien Yong), Sichuan (formerly Szechwan), west China under the Church Missionary Society from 1917 to 1924 and again from 1928 to 1934, and married a fellow missionary Caroline Mildred Slater in 1918.[1] He succeeded Lewis Frederick Havermale as editor of The West China Missionary News in 1931, a position he held until 1934.[3] He was listed in the 1933–1934 directory of the West China Union University as a teacher of History.[4] He was vicar of Holy Trinity Hull from 1937 to[5] 1947. He also served as Archdeacon of Western Szechwan prior to his appointment as Archdeacon of Cornwall.[6] He became a chaplain to Queen Elizabeth II on the occasion of her coronation on 5 August 1952, and remained in that post until his death in 1966. There is a memorial to him at Truro Cathedral.
Personal life
Boreham married Caroline Mildred Slater and had four children, three of whom survived into adulthood: Peter, Cicely and John.
