Species Faurea rochetiana

For William Caldwell Faure (1822–1844), South African botanist, soldier and naturalist, teacher of mathematics at the South African College, Cape Town (now the University of Cape Town), made a special study of the genus Oxalis, went to India for the East India Company and became an ensign in the Second European Light Infantry. He died in an ambush at the early age of 22. He was praised by William Henry Harvey, who predicted that had he lived he would have become a fine botanist.