Purchase of Own Securities

Edinburgh Investment Trust PLC
7 February 2000

On 7 February 2000, The Edinburgh Investment Trust plc bought back a further
175,000 ordinary shares for cancellation at a price of 493p per share.
Following the buy back, there are 276,472,364 ordinary shares in issue. The
share buy-back will be financed out of the capital reserve.


For Edinburgh Fund Managers plc,Secretary
Lynn Mathewson
Deputy Secretary