Director Shareholding

Barclays PLC
16 August 2004





                                                                  16 August 2004

         Notification of directors' interests: Companies Act 1985 s.329

1.  The independent trustee of the Barclays Group (ESAS) Employees' Benefit 
    Trust (the 'ESAS Trust') notified the Company on 16 August 2004 that it had 
    between 10 and 12 August 2004 exercised its discretion and released a total
    of 60,658 ordinary shares in Barclays PLC to participants in the Executive 
    Share Award Scheme ('ESAS'). The participants to whom the shares were 
    released are not directors of Barclays PLC.

2.  Mr C J Lendrum, a director of Barclays PLC, notified the Company on 13 August
    2004 that on 13 August 2004 he had exercised 216,000 options granted on 18 
    May 2000 at a price of 390p under the Barclays PLC Incentive Share Option 
    Plan and on 13 August 2004 he sold 208,328 of these shares at a price of 514.5p.

    Following this transaction, Mr Lendrum holds a beneficial interest in 239,239
    ordinary shares in the capital of Barclays PLC.

Following these transactions, the trustees of all the Barclays Group employees'
benefit trusts hold a total of 109,974,553 ordinary shares in Barclays PLC. Sir
Peter Middleton, Chairman, and the executive directors of Barclays are amongst
the potential beneficiaries under these trusts and are therefore regarded for
Companies Act purposes as being interested in the Barclays PLC ordinary shares
held in them.




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