Edward Band, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Edward Band

Date of Birth: 07-Jan-1886

Place of Birth: Birkenhead, England, United Kingdom

Date of Death: 22-Mar-1971

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

Edward Band (7 January 1886 – 22 March 1971) was an English Presbyterian missionary and schoolteacher.
He spent the most significant portion of his career in Taiwan, 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.
He taught at and was eventually principal of Tainan Middle School, and was said to have been responsible for introducing soccer 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.