| Notes |
- Willy started his career as an officer in the Dutch army, where he was a Military Pilot. After he left the Army he was asked by his eldest brother Henry, who had a brokerage business, HMF Faure, in London, to go to Egypt for him. He went there, and was soon joined by his wife. They lived in Alexandria.
A year later they moved to London. In 1928 Willy was taken on by Mr Hartog, who had a margarine business in Holland, and who was negotiating with van den Berg and Jurgens, and with Lever Brothers, at a time when Unilever was being formed.
Willy sold London and moved to Nijmegen, the home town of Hartog. When Hartog's and the other businesses had been reorganised into Unilever, Willy became the margarine export manager in Rotterdam, and, in 1930 the family moved to The Hague.
Willy travelled extensively throughout Europe, and North Africa, and was fortunate in speaking four languages fluently. After a few years of managing the subsidiary Calvé Delft (oil and cattlecake), he became Plantation Manager in 1937 and later Director of the United Africa Company, which was a Unilever trading company with plantations in Nigeria, the Gold Coast and the Belgian Congo.
They later moved to Surrey. During the war Willy also liaised with the Ministry of Food. After the
war, the government asked for the United Africa Company to manage the start of the Groundnut Scheme in Tanganyika. In 1948 Willy was appointed to the Unilever board as Director responsible for the business
in France and the surrounding countries Belgium, Switzerland, Italy, Spain and Portugal. His services to France were officially recognised, and he was made "Commandeur l'Ordre de l'Économie Nationale de la
République Française".
Willy retired in 1959.
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| Children |
| + | 1. Marnix Frederik FAURE, b. 28 Dec 1920, Netherlands  , d. 17 May 1976 (Age 55 years) |
| | 2. Sjoukje Annie FAURE, b. 5 Jul 1924, Surrey UK (Age 99 years) [Birth] |
| + | 3. Anthony Gerhard FAURE, b. 17 Dec 1926, Surrey UK , d. 12 Jul 2022 (Age 95 years) [Birth] |
| + | 4. Maarten Bart FAURE, b. 27 Oct 1928, Surrey UK , d. 18 Apr 2002, Surrey, UK (Age 73 years) [Birth] |
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1898 - 1981 (82 years)
