Hoyt (1915-1976) was from Beacon, NY. In 1938, he received his Bachelor of Law degree from the University of Virginia Law School, where he was on the Law Review Board. He was subsequently admitted to the bar in New York, the District of Columbia, and Colorado.
From 1944-46 he was on active duty in US Naval Reserve. He served in the US and Pacific as an air combat intelligence officer. He next became a special assistant to the U.S. Attorney General in the Tax Division of the U.S. Department of Justice from 1946 to 1949. He was assigned as assistant chief of the compromise section of the Tax Division
He lived in Port Royal from 1969 moving from Fairfax until his death in 1976. He retired as a tax court judge in 1973 having been appointed by President Kennedy in 1962. While in Port Royal he served on St. Peter’s Vestry.
Ironically, he is buried by the structure he named – the campanile – a wooden bell tower which housed the bell before the bell was returned to the belfry of the church in 2009. In 1868 the belfrey had been hit by lightening which caused a fire and the bell was moved to the structure that Hoyt called the campanile. The campanile still provides shade for his grave although no longer used as a bell tower.