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Beazley Group PLC
17 November 2004


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17 November 2004

                               Beazley Group plc

Shareholders Approve Rights Issue

Beazley Group plc, one of the Lloyd's market leaders, is pleased to announce
that, further to its announcement of 1 November 2004, the resolution proposed at
today's Extraordinary General Meeting in respect of the rights issue was duly
passed.

Admission to the Official List and to trading on the London Stock Exchange of up
to 131,134,252 new ordinary shares being issued pursuant to the rights issue is
expected to occur, nil paid, on 18 November 2004.


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