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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.

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  • 萬榮華(英語:Edward Band,1886年1月7日-1971年3月22日),本名愛德華·本德,英國伯肯黑德人。英國長老教會傳教士,1914年擔任台南長老教中學校(今長榮中學)校長,任內將英式足球引進校園,是台灣足球運動的先驅。 (zh)
  • 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. (en)
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  • 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. (en)
  • 萬榮華(英語:Edward Band,1886年1月7日-1971年3月22日),本名愛德華·本德,英國伯肯黑德人。英國長老教會傳教士,1914年擔任台南長老教中學校(今長榮中學)校長,任內將英式足球引進校園,是台灣足球運動的先驅。 (zh)
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