Charles Smith ("C.S.")Hyman,PC (August 31, 1854 – October 8, 1926) was a Canadian businessman, notable politician, andsportsman. He was a popular tennis player and won a record fiveCanadian Opens, until broken byIvan Lendl with six titles.

Born inLondon,Canada West, the son ofEllis Walton Hyman, a tanner and entrepreneur, and Annie Maria Niles, he was educated atHellmuth Academy in London and then started a shoe factory with his father in 1874. In 1876, he married Elizabeth Birrell, and for two years, they had an Idlewyld mansion built,^[1] which is now an inn. Hyman was president of the London Board of Trade from 1881 to 1882. In 1916, He built a summer estate in Port Stanley, Ontario on the shore of Lake Erie. He was also a tannery owner.^[2]

Hyman was elected to the London city council in 1882 and was mayor in 1884. He first ran as aLiberal candidate againstJohn Carling for theHouse of Commons of Canada in the1887 election for the riding ofLondon and was defeated.

Hyman ran again in1891 and was elected, but the election was declared void, and he was defeated in the resulting 1892 by-election. After losing again in1896, he was elected in1900 and was re-elected in1904. From 1904 to 1905, he was a minister without portfolio. From 1905 to 1907, he was the Minister of Public Works. He resigned in 1907. He died in 1926 and was buried at Woodland Cemetery in London.

Hyman was an early Canadian tennis champion, capturing the national tennis championship (which has since evolved into the currentRogers Cup) five times in singles – in 1884 and each year from 1886 through 1889. (OnlyIvan Lendl surpassed this, winning six titles from 1980 to 1989.) Hyman also captured two doubles titles, the 1886 final partneringI.F. Hellmuth, and the 1889 final playing alongsideR.S. Wood. (No one has ever won a total of seven titles.)

Hyman was also an early captain of theCanada national cricket team, quite possibly when on its1887 England Tour.^[1]

Hyman is said to have introduced the gamebridge to Canada.^[1]

• C. S. Hyman – Parliament of Canada biography
• "Ellis Walton Hyman".Dictionary of Canadian Biography (online ed.).University of Toronto Press. 1979–2016.
• The Canadian parliamentary companion, 1891, JA Gemmill

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