Director Shareholding

Hiscox PLC
29 September 2003

29 September 2003


                                   HISCOX PLC

                            Director's Shareholdings



Hiscox Plc (the 'Company') was notified on 26 September 2003 that, following the
purchase of 10,000 ordinary 5p shares in the Company on 26 September, 2003,
Stuart Bridges now has a beneficial interest in 205,283 ordinary shares or 0.07%
of the issued share capital of the Company.

The executive directors of the Company are potential beneficiaries of the
Company's employee share ownership plan trust ('ESOP') and are therefore also
each deemed to have an additional non-beneficial interest in 255,466 ordinary
shares owned by Hiscox Trustees Limited, the trustee of the ESOP.




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