Director Shareholding

Hiscox PLC
04 May 2004

Director's Shareholdings

Hiscox Plc (the 'Company') was notified on 30 April that, following the
acquisition of 10,000 ordinary shares of 5p each in the Company on 30 April 2004
at a price of 158.5 pence per share, Robert Childs now has a beneficial interest
of 1,173,468 ordinary shares or 0.4 per cent. 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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