Directors' Shareholding

Barclays PLC
19 August 2002



                                                                  19 August 2002



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




Sir Peter Middleton notified the Company on 16 August 2002 that on 15 August
2002 Lady Middleton (a connected person) purchased 2,000 ordinary shares in the
Company at a price of 456p per share.



Following this transaction, Sir Peter has a beneficial interest in 163,748
ordinary shares and a non-beneficial interest in 6,000 ordinary shares in
Barclays PLC.



In addition to the interests shown above, the trustees of all the Barclays Group
employees' benefit trusts hold a total of 64,279,868 ordinary shares in Barclays
PLC.  Sir Peter Middleton, a director of Barclays PLC, together with other
directors and senior executives, is amongst the potential beneficiaries under
these trusts and is therefore regarded for Companies Act purposes as being
interested in the Barclays PLC ordinary shares held in them.








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