Director/PDMR Shareholding

British American Tobacco PLC
01 August 2005


DIRECTOR/PDMR SHAREHOLDING

The independent trustee of the British American Tobacco Group Employee Trust
notified the Company on 1 August 2005 that it had on 29 July 2005 released
12,000 British American Tobacco p.l.c. 25p ordinary shares (the "Shares") to a
participant in the British American Tobacco Long Term Incentive Plan.

Following this transaction, the independent trustee of the British American
Tobacco Group Employee Trust holds a total of 24,117,122 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
transaction that took place on the above mentioned date:  Mr P N Adams, Mr P A
Rayner and Mr A Monteiro de Castro.


A C Girling
Deputy Secretary

0207 845 1919


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