The writer Anthony Boden was born in Cheshire and has lived in Gloucestershire since 1975. He has a particular interest in British music and literature, and, following a career in the medical services of the Royal Air Force, was appointed Administrator of the Three Choirs Festival in Gloucester, a post he held from 1989 until 1999.

In 1995 he became founding Chairman of the Ivor Gurney Society, and, in 2001, a Trustee of the Ivor Gurney Estate. His books include:

Stars in a Dark Night: the Letters of Ivor Gurney to the Chapman Family (Sutton, 1986; rev. 2004)
F.W. Harvey: Soldier, Poet (Sutton, 1988; rev. 1998)
Three Choirs: A History of the Festival (Sutton, 1992)
The Parrys of the Golden Vale (Thames, 1998)
Thomas Tomkins: The Last Elizabethan (Ashgate, 2005)