Director's Shareholding

Hiscox PLC
05 July 2005



                            Director's Shareholdings

Hiscox plc ('the Company') was notified on 4 July 2005, that following a
purchase of 5,000 ordinary shares of 5p each in the Company at a price of £1.67,
Robert Childs now has a beneficial interest of 1,216,777 ordinary shares or
0.41% of the issued share capital of the Company.

The executive directors of the Company are potential beneficiaries of the
Company's employee share ownership trust ('ESOP') and are therefore also deemed
to have an additional non-beneficial interest in 102,323 ordinary shares owned
by Hiscox Trustees Limited, the Trustee of the ESOP.


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