RNS Number:7206T
Rathbone Brothers PLC
30 December 2003


                                  SCHEDULE 11

          NOTIFICATION OF INTERESTS OF DIRECTORS AND CONNECTED PERSONS
1. Name of company

Rathbone Brothers Plc

2. Name of director

Viscount Edward James Wingfield Lifford

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 or in respect of a non-beneficial
interest

Notification in respect of a non-beneficial interest

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

Rathbone Nominees Limited

5. Please state whether notification relates to a person(s) connected with the
director named in 2 above and identify the connected person(s)

N/A

6. Please state the nature of the transaction. For PEP transactions please
indicate whether general/single co PEP and if discretionary/non discretionary
Share sale

7. Number of shares / amount of stock acquired

N/A

8. Percentage of issued class

N/A

9. Number of shares/amount of stock disposed

884

10. Percentage of issued class

0.002%

11. Class of security

Ordinary Shares of 5p

12. Price per share

#7.35

13. Date of transaction

30 December 2003

14. Date company informed

30 December 2003

15. Total holding following this notification

Beneficial 88,949                Non-beneficial 20,000

16. Total percentage holding of issued class following this notification

Beneficial 0.219%                Non-beneficial 0.049%

17. Name of contact and telephone number for queries

Richard Loader, Company Secretary, 020 7399 0000

18. Name and signature of authorised company official responsible for making
this notification

Richard Loader, Company Secretary

Date of Notification

30 December 2003

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