David Pieter Faure was the founder of the Unitarian Church in South Africa, an interpreter and a Grand Master of the Freemasons in South Africa.
10 Facts About David Faure
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David Faure was the younger of two sons of Abraham Faure and Dorothea Susanna de Villiers.
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David Faure married Helena Johanna Augusta Munnik on 17 March 1871.
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David Faure studied theology at the University of Leiden in the Netherlands up to 1866, when he graduated.
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David Faure had become aware of different ways of thinking.
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David Faure was pastor up to 1897, when he was succeeded by Rev Ramsden Balmforth from England.
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David Faure believed one could, as a Christian, accept Darwin's evolutionary theory.
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David Faure was the interpreter in the Koegas murder case.
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David Faure not being satisfied with the case wrote letters to the Argus newspaper.
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David Faure was the Grand Master of Lodge de Goede Hoop from 1893 to 1897, when he took over from Jan Hofmeyer.