Changes in Registered Holders

Victrex PLC
9 May 2000

                  DEALINGS BY SUBSTANTIAL SHAREHOLDERS


1)   NAME OF COMPANY

     VICTREX PLC

2)   NAME OF SHAREHOLDER HAVING A MAJOR INTEREST

     PRUDENTIAL PORTFOLIO MANAGERS UK LTD

3)   Please state whether notification indicates that it is in respect of 
     holding of the Shareholder named in 2 above or in respect of a 
     non-beneficial interest or in the case of an individual holder if it is a
     holding of that person's spouse or children under the age of 18

     AS 2 ABOVE

4)   Name of the registered holder(s) and, if more than one holder, the 
     number of shares held by each of them.

     SEE BELOW 

5)   Number of shares/amount of stock acquired.



6)   ( N/A %) of issued Class

7)   Number of shares/amount of stock disposed



8)   ( N/A %) of issued Class

9)   Class of security



10)  Date of transaction



11)  Date company informed



12)  Total holding following this notification


               
              
13)  Total percentage holding of issued class following this notification



14)  Any additional information



15)  Name of contact and telephone number for queries

     JOAN LITTLEWOOD
     01253 897724

16)  Name and signature of authorised company official responsible for 
     making this notification

    

     Date of Notification .... 9th MAY 2000 ................


LETTER TO: VICTREX PLC
DATED: 8 MAY 2000

COMPANIES ACT 1985
DISCLOSURES OF INTEREST IN VOTING SHARES - CHANGES IN REGISTERED HOLDERS

In compliance with Part VI of the above Act, as amended, I inform you that, with
effect from Monday 8th May 2000, the registration details for some funds
currently managed by Prudential plc have changed. As a direct result, the names
of the registered holders which compromise our notifiable interest in the voting
shares in your company will now be as listed below.

It must be stressed that it is not a change to our notifiable interest in the
voting shares of your company that has generated this notification, but merely a
change in registration details.

LETTER FROM: COLIN HOUGHTON
             FOR AND ON BEHALF OF THE PRUDENTIAL PLC
              




                                 NOTIFIABLES        08-MAY-2000
                               Position Report

        SEDOL: 0929224    Client Fund reporting Group: PPMI

 

Shares in Issue:  78,529,279

                           Registered                       Current   Holding
                           Holder                           Holding       %
VICTREX 
 0929224 ORD GBP0.01      
                          CHASE NOMINEES LTD               1,185,000
                          CHASE NOMS LTD A/C 14922           643,554
                          CLYDESDALE BK (H.OFF) NOMS LTD     572,071
                          CLYDESDALE BK NOMS LTD CHI       1,327,200
                          CLYDESDALE BK NOMS LTD MGA       1,309,150
                          CLYDESDALE BK NOMS LTD MGC       2,118,664
                          CLYDESDALE BK NOMS LTD MGI         759,800
                          CLYDESDALE BK NOMS LTD RIT       1,085,850
                          HSBC GLOBAL NOMS LTD A/C 379     1,876,692
                          M&G (LOMBARD ST) NOMS            1,854,479
                          NUTRACO NOMINEES LTD CARR          447,000
                          PRUCLT HSBC GIS NOMS(UK) PAC AC  1,522,476  
                          STATE ST NOM LTD JD72                6,300
                          THE BANK OF N.Y.(NOMS) LTD          90,000

                                                          14,798,236  18.84