Edward Band

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{{Short description|English Presbyterian missionary and schoolteacher}}

{{Infobox person

| name = Edward Band

| caption = Missionary and teacher

| image = 萬榮華肖像.jpg

| birth_date = 7 January 1886

| birth_place = Birkenhead, United Kingdom

| death_date = {{death date and age |1971|3|22 |1886|1|7 |df=yes}}

| death_place = Bournemouth, United Kingdom

| nationality = British

| children = George Band

| alma_mater = Queens' College, Cambridge

}}

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,Otness, pp. 8–9 he spoke Japanese and Taiwanese fluently.{{cite journal | title = Calvinism and Taiwan | journal =Theology Today| date=1 July 2009| first =Cheng | last = Yang-En | issn= 0040-5736 |volume =#66 | issue=2 | pages= 184–202 | doi =10.1177/004057360906600205| access-date = 2 October 2024 |url = https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/004057360906600205 | url-access =subscription}}

Band was a pupil of Birkenhead School and then went to Queens' College, Cambridge to study Mathematics{{cite web | title = Queens' College Record 20I2 | website =Queen's College, Cambridge| date= 2012| access-date = 2 October 2024 |url = https://www.queens.cam.ac.uk/files/publicationFiles/queens-college-2012ocr.pdf#page=77 }} before completing a theology course at Westminster College in Cambridge.{{cite journal | title = History 462 Changzhong New Principal Wan Ronghua | journal =Taiwan Church Bulletin | date=23 August 1998| volume =2425 | access-date = 2 October 2024 |url = https://www-laijohn-com.translate.goog/book5/462.htm?_x_tr_sch=http&_x_tr_sl=zh-TW&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc }}

Band taught at and was eventually principal of Tainan's Presbyterian Church High School, renamed {{ill|Chang Jung Senior High School|zh|臺南市私立長榮高級中學}} in 1939, and introduced association football to the island.{{cite web |last1=Pan |first1=Jason |title=FEATURE: Taiwan's soccer roots start in colonial Tainan |url=https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2021/02/23/2003752717 |website=www.taipeitimes.com |publisher=Taipei Times |access-date=22 February 2021}}{{cite news |author1=Han Cheung |title=Taiwan in Time: Soccer madness in the Japanese era |url=https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/feat/archives/2023/01/01/2003791769 |access-date=1 January 2023 |work=Taipei Times |date=1 January 2023}}

Band authored several books; Barclay of Formosa (1936), a biography of fellow missionary Thomas Barclay, Working His Purpose Out (1947), a history of the English Presbyterian Mission published on its centenary in 1947, and He Brought Them Out: the Story of the Christian Movement Among the Mountain Tribes of Formosa, published by the British and Foreign Bible Society in 1949.