Directorate Change

The Edinburgh Investment Trust plc                       

HEADLINE: Appointment of New Director

The Board of The Edinburgh Investment Trust plc (`the Company') is pleased to
announce the appointment of Gordon McQueen as a Non-Executive Director of the
Company with effect from 31 May 2011.

Mr McQueen spent the bulk of his career with the Bank of Scotland where he was
latterly Finance Director, retiring in 2003 as an Executive Director of HBOS
plc. He currently serves as a director of a number of companies in the
investment trust and property sectors, and will become Chairman of the Audit
Committee after the Annual General Meeting when Jim Pettigrew will succeed
Scott Dobbie as Company Chairman.

He is a Director and Audit Committee Chairman of Shaftesbury PLC, Scottish
Mortgage Investment Trust plc and JP Morgan Mid Cap Investment Trust plc

Mr McQueen does not currently hold any of the Company's ordinary shares.

No information is to be disclosed in respect of paragraphs 9.6.13(2) to 9.6.13
(6) of the Financial Services Authority's Listing Rules.

Kelly Nice

for and on behalf of

Invesco Asset Management Limited

- Company Secretary

31 May 2011