Edward Band (7 January 1886 – 22 March 1971) was an English

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missionary and schoolteacher. He spent the most significant portion of his career in

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, arriving in 1912 and leaving in 1940. He was the first missionary in Taiwan to be sent to Japan to learn Japanese after the transfer of power from the Qing dynasty to the Japanese government.Otness, pp. 8–9 He taught at and was eventually principal of

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's Presbyterian Church High School, renamed in 1939, and was said to have been responsible for introducing 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 the mission's 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 {{UK-Christian-clergy-stub