Chaplin Court Treatt

Major Chaplin Court Treatt (1888 – 1954), also known as "C.T.", was an English Royal Flying Corps officer and a traveller and adventurer in Africa who masterminded the Court Treatt Expedition 1924–1926, the first successful attempt to drive a motor car from Cape Town to Cairo. The project was finished in 1922 and Chaplin chose to remain in Africa.

In 1923, Chaplin married Stella Hinds in South Africa. In 1924, after an interval securing permissions in England, Chaplin and Stella, together with Stella's brother, Errol Hinds, and several others, undertook a seventeen-month car journey from Cape Town to Cairo.

Later life The Court Treatts divorced in London in 1935. Chaplin mounted several further African expeditions before moving to the United States. He died in Los Angeles on 11 July 1954.