AGM Statement

RIT Capital Partners PLC
13 July 2006


RIT Capital Partners plc

13 July 2006

ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING

The Annual General Meeting of RIT Capital Partners plc was held on Thursday 13
July 2006.


All resolutions as set out in the Notice of Meeting dated 6 June 2006 were
passed, and prints of the items of special business will shortly be available
for inspection at the UK Listing Authority's Document Viewing Facility, which is
situated at:

Financial Services Authority
25 The North Colonnade
Canary Wharf
London
E14 5HS

Tel. No. 020 7676 1000


The proxy votes cast on each resolution were as follows:

RESOLUTION                                FOR/                      VOTES
                                          DISCRETIONARY   AGAINST   WITHHELD
                                         
ORDINARY BUSINESS:

  1.  Approval of the Directors' Report   
      and Accounts                        58,655,833      641,155     15,320
  2.  Approval of the Directors'          
      Remuneration Report                 57,905,826    1,350,802     55,680 
  3.  Approval of final dividend          59,075,222      221,586     15,500
  4.  Re-election of Charles Bailey as a  
      Director                            55,174,263    1,224,082  2,913,963  
  5.  Re-election of Mikael Breuer-Weil   
      as a Director                       55,346,230      840,948  3,125,130
  6.  Re-election of David Haysey as a    
      Director                            58,891,991      392,220     28,097 
  7.  Re-election of Christopher Hohn as  
      a Director                          59,240,510       36,822     29,875  
  8.  Re-election of Andrew Knight as a   
      Director                            55,503,156      864,097  2,939,954   
  9.  Re-election of Baron Lambert as a   
      Director                            55,149,034    1,212,756  2,950,518 
 10.  Re-election of Lord Rothschild as   
      a Director                          53,800,200    5,487,154     24,954
 11.  Re-election of Michael Sofaer as a  
      Director                            55,351,607      835,821  3,124,880
 12.  Re-appointment of                   
      PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as
      auditors                            59,273,109       24,329     14,870 

SPECIAL BUSINESS:

 13.  To renew the power to allot equity  
      securities                          59,209,148       34,339     68,821
 14.  To renew the power to allot equity  
      securities for cash outside the
      pre-emption provisions of the
      Articles of Association             59,181,850       53,866     76,592
 15.  To renew the authority to           
      repurchase up to 14.99 per cent.
      of the Company's issued share
      capital                             59,011,597       67,904    227,706   

Resolutions 1 to 12 were passed as ordinary resolutions and resolutions 13 to 15
were passed as special resolutions.






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