Edward Band

Edward Band (7 January 1886 – 22 March 1971) was an English Presbyterian missionary and schoolteacher. He spent most of his career in Taiwan, 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. Band taught at and was eventually principal of Tainan'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. References