Faure was born in Stellenbosch, Cape Province, South Africa on 11 November 1842.
He was the younger of two sons of Abraham Faure and Dorothea Susanna de Villiers.
The Colloquium Doctum was put in place, as two theological contemporaries of him, Thomas François Burgers from Hanover (1862) and Kotze, J.J. from Darling (1864), were suspended as they differed from the church-prescribed theory.
[2][4] On 30 July 1876 he gave a discourse in church about the Charles Darwin's theory of evolution.
He used a nom de plume: Fiat Justitia (Latin for "let justice always be told").
Thomas Upington the Attorney General was declared incapable of being in such a public position.
[5] When the Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek delegation under the leadership of President Kruger travelled to London, UK Faure accompanied them as interpreter.
He was the Grand Master of Lodge de Goede Hoop (South African Freemasons) from 1893 to 1897, when he took over from Jan Hofmeyer.