Director Shareholding

Smiths Group PLC
27 January 2005


27 January 2005


The Company has been informed by the trustees of the TI Group Employee Share
Trust ('UK Trust') and the TI Group Jersey Employee Share Trust ('Jersey Trust')
that, on 26 January 2005, they both sold their entire holdings of Smiths shares:
249,955 shares at 838.44p per share in the case of the UK Trust and 188,614
shares at 837.72p per share in the case of the Jersey Trust.  As a consequence,
the two directors of Smiths Group plc (Messrs J Langston and DP Lillycrop) who
formerly had a technical interest in the Smiths shares held by the trustees no
longer have any such interest.

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