Directors' Dealings

BARCLAYS PLC
22 October 1999

                               
   Notification of directors' interests : Companies Act s329

Sir Peter Middleton notified the Company on 19 October 1999
that on that day a trust of which he is a co trustee and in
which he has a non beneficial interest had sold 8,000 ordinary
shares in the Company at a price of 1723p per share.

Following this transaction, Sir Peter Middleton has a
beneficial interest in 34,992 ordinary shares in Barclays PLC
and a non-beneficial interest in 17,000 ordinary shares in
Barclays PLC.

In addition to the interest shown above, the Director has an
interest as a potential beneficiary, together with other
Directors and senior executives, in the total of  9,166,449
Barclays PLC ordinary shares held by the Barclays Group
employees' benefit trusts.