Milton Grundy, who has died aged 96, proved a scourge of the Exchequer during a career as a leading tax lawyer during which he pioneered offshore tax havens and became the éminence grise of the tax planning industry; at the same time he was an aesthete, philanthropist and indefatigable patron of the arts.
In 1955 Grundy was a newly qualified barrister, surviving cases of dangerous driving and hire-purchase debts, when his father went into hospital for a routine operation that he was unable to survive. Grundy was the only son. Four years, 11 months and 20 days earlier, his father