Director/PDMR Shareholding

Rathbone Brothers PLC
28 September 2006



Rathbone Brothers Plc
Notification of a share option exercise by a director

On 27 September 2006, Peter Pearson Lund exercised options over 3,650 Rathbone
Brothers Plc Ordinary Shares of 5p granted under the Rathbone Employee Share
Option Scheme 1993. The market value at exercise was £11.12 being the closing
mid market price on 26 September 2006. The shares allotted were registered in
the name of Rathbone Nominees Limited.

Following this exercise, his total holding is now 7,314 ordinary shares,
representing 0.017% of the issued share capital of the company.


Richard Loader
Company Secretary
28 September 2006
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