Director/PDMR Shareholding

Rathbone Brothers PLC
05 April 2006



Rathbone Brothers Plc

Notification of dealing by Directors and Persons Discharging Managerial
Responsibility ('PDMR')


On 31 March 2006 the following directors and PDMRs sold Rathbone Brothers Plc
Ordinary Shares of 5p at an average price of £11.74. Details are set out below.
The registered shareholder was Rathbone Nominees Ltd.

Name                  Status  Number of  Percentage  Total holding  Total 
                              shares     of issued   following      percentage 
                              sold       class       notification   holding 
                                         disposed                   following 
                                                                    notification

Nicola Bennett        PDMR       1,752        0.004%         5,018        0.012%
Mark Biddlecombe      PDMR         584        0.001%         2,103        0.005%
Paul Chavasse         Director   1,634        0.004%         9,773        0.023%
                      and PDMR
Julian Chillingworth  PDMR       4,958        0.012%         6,011        0.014%
Michael Cunningham    PDMR       3,833        0.009%        42,299        0.101%
Sheila de Carteret    PDMR       1,460        0.003%         2,873        0.007%
Clare Gore Langton    PDMR       5,369        0.013%       199,272        0.476%
Robert Hughes Penney  PDMR      11,474        0.027%        11,410        0.027%
Richard Loader        PDMR       1,168        0.003%        63,168        0.151%
Anita Lovell          PDMR       3,504        0.008%         5,041        0.012%
Andrew Morris         Director   5,236        0.012%        26,253        0.063%
                      and PDMR
Kiran Patel           PDMR         584        0.001%         1,761        0.004%
Julia Quenault        PDMR       1,751        0.004%         3,082        0.007%
Steven Robinson       PDMR         350        0.001%         1,107        0.003%
Jeff Vernon           PDMR      11,970        0.029%        11,266        0.027%


Richard Loader
Company Secretary
5 April 2006

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