Re: Mr A.W. Gooch

Gooch & Housego PLC
16 September 2005




For immediate release                                      16 September 2005


                              Gooch & Housego PLC


Mr A W Gooch, co-founder of Gooch & Housego passed away on 15 September after a
long period of illness.

Mr Gooch was Chairman of Gooch & Housego PLC until February 2005, when he
retired as a director and took up the honorary position of Founder and
President.


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