Director Shareholding

Hiscox PLC
06 December 2004


                                   Hiscox plc
                                        
                            Director's Shareholdings
                                        
Hiscox plc (the 'Company') was notified on 1 December that, following a purchase
of 14,283 ordinary 5p shares in the Company under the Sharesave Scheme, Bronek
Masojada now has a beneficial interest of 2,359,455 ordinary shares or 0.8% 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 313,368 ordinary
shares owned by Hiscox Trustees Limited, the trustee of the ESOP.




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