Director Shareholding

Hiscox PLC
08 April 2004


Director's Shareholdings


Hiscox Plc (the 'Company') was notified on 8 April that, following the
acquisition of 4,100 ordinary 5p shares in the Company on 7 April 2004 at a
price of £1.6675, Robert Hiscox now has a beneficial interest of 8,884,695
ordinary shares or 3.05% of the issued share capital of the Company. Robert
Hiscox's non-beneficial holding of 582,715 ordinary shares or 0.2% of the
Company remains unchanged.

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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