AGM Statement

RIT Capital Partners PLC
14 July 2005


RIT Capital Partners plc

14 July 2005

ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING

The Annual General Meeting of RIT Capital Partners plc was held on Thursday 14
July 2005.

All resolutions as set out in the Notice of Meeting dated 26 May 2005 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/            AGAINST     VOTES
                                          DISCRETIONARY               WITHHELD
                                          
ORDINARY BUSINESS:
 1.  Approval of the Directors' Report       57,360,632     732,573     14,788
     and Accounts
 2.  Approval of the Directors'              56,808,539     758,169    541,285
     Remuneration Report
 3.  Approval of final dividend              58,062,091      33,989     11,913
 4.  Re-election of Charles Bailey as a      55,837,305   2,103,720    166,968
     Director
 5.  Re-election of Duncan Budge as a        57,655,105     424,288     28,600
     Director
 6.  Re-election of Andrew Knight as a       56,215,205   1,596,353    295,056
     Director
 7.  Re-election of Baron Lambert as a       55,819,496   2,119,603    168,894
     Director
 8.  Re-election of James Leigh-Pemberton    57,991,138      88,100     28,755
     as a Director
 9.  Re-election of Michael Marks as a       57,991,288      84,677     32,028
     Director
10   Re-election of Nathaniel Rothschild     55,845,430   2,218,303     44,260
     as a Director
11.  Re-appointment of                       58,017,672      53,826     36,495
     PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as
     auditors
SPECIAL BUSINESS:
12.  To renew the power to allot equity      58,059,828      13,643     34,522
     securities
13.  To renew the power to allot equity      58,042,263      28,009     37,721
     securities for cash outside the
     pre-emption provisions of the
     Articles of Association
14.  To renew the authority to repurchase    58,071,231      18,496     18,266
     up to 14.99 per cent. of the
     Company's issued share capital
15.  To amend the Memorandum of              57,912,812      12,646    182,535
     Association objects clause by way of
     update to the directors' indemnity
     provisions
16.  To amend the Article of Association     58,034,933      13,917     59,143
     no. 141 by way of update to the
     directors' indemnity provisions
17.  To approve the general amendments to    58,055,405       8,961     43,627
     the Articles of Association
18.  To approve the amendment of Article     57,783,815     243,980     80,198
     78, to increase the limit of annual
     directors' fees payable to
     non-executive directors to
     £300,000

Resolutions 1 to 11 were passed as ordinary resolutions and resolutions 12 to 18
were passed as special resolutions.




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