Director/PDMR Shareholding

British American Tobacco PLC
11 July 2005





DIRECTOR/PDMR SHAREHOLDING


The independent trustee of the British American Tobacco Group Employee Trust
notified the Company on 11 July 2005 that it had on 8 July 2005 released 1,706
British American Tobacco p.l.c. 25p ordinary shares (the "Shares") to satisfy
the exercise of options under the Company's share option scheme.


Following this transaction, the independent trustee of the British American
Tobacco Group Employee Trust holds a total of 24,408,499 Shares.


The following executive directors, together with other employees, are potential
beneficiaries under the trust, and are therefore deemed to be technically
interested for Companies Act purposes but were not connected with the
transactions that took place on the above mentioned date:  Mr P N Adams, Mr P A
Rayner and Mr A Monteiro de Castro.



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