Edward Band (7 January 1886 – 22 March 1971) was an English
Presbyterian
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missionary and schoolteacher. He spent most of his career in
Taiwan
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, arriving in 1912 and leaving in 1940. He was the first missionary there sent to Japan to learn Japanese after the transfer of power from the Qing dynasty to the Japanese government.
[Otness, pp. 8–9]
Band taught at and was eventually principal of
Tainan
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's Presbyterian Church High School, renamed in 1939, and introduced
association football to the island.
Band authored two books; ''Barclay of Formosa'' (1936), a biography of fellow missionary
Thomas Barclay, and ''Working His Purpose Out'' (1947), a history of the English Presbyterian Mission published on its centenary in 1947.
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Presbyterian missionaries in Taiwan
English Presbyterian missionaries
British expatriates in Taiwan
1886 births
1971 deaths
Heads of schools in Taiwan
British schoolteachers
People from Birkenhead
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