Director/PDMR Shareholding

Rathbone Brothers PLC
30 March 2006


Rathbone Brothers Plc ('Company')

Directors' and PDMRs shareholding - Long Term Incentive Plan


The Company has been notified that on 28 March 2006, the independent trustee of
the Rathbone Brothers Plc Long Term Incentive Plan, Investec Trust (Guernsey)
Limited transferred Rathbone Brothers Plc ordinary shares of 5p to participants
in the 2003-05 Plan. Directors have received shares as follows:

Director           Notes    Shares    Percentage of    Total holding    Total percentage
/PDMR                       received  issued class     following        holding following
                            acquired  notification     notification

Paul Egerton Vernon  1, 3   13,486    0.032%           60,579                 0.145%


Richard Lanyon       1      10,000    0.024%           217,313                0.519%

James Lifford        1      13,548    0.032%           Beneficial 103,854     0.248%
                                
                                                       Non-beneficial 20,000  0.048%
                                          
Mark Powell          2      16,422   0.039%            Beneficial  312,080    0.745%
                               
                                                       Non-beneficial  12,500 0.030%
                                          
Richard Smeeton      1      10,000   0.024%            140,661                0.336%



Notes

1                   Shares registered in the name of Rathbone Nominees Limited.

2                   Shares registered in the director's own name.

3                   Report in respect of a PDMR. Paul Egerton Vernon retired
                    from the board on 31 December 2005 but remains a director 
                    of a major subsidiary.



Richard Loader

Company Secretary


30 March 2006




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