Director Shareholding

Barclays PLC
06 August 2004

                                                                   6 August 2004


         Notification of directors' interests: Companies Act 1985 s.329

On 5 August 2004 the following ordinary shares in Barclays PLC were purchased on
behalf of the following non-executive directors of Barclays PLC at a price of
480.25p per share. As disclosed in the Barclays Annual Report, these purchases
arise from the policy of using part of each director's fee to purchase shares in
Barclays PLC on the directors behalf which, together with reinvested dividends,
are retained for the director until they leave the Board.


DIRECTOR                       BARCLAYS PLC   TOTAL           TOTAL
                               SHARES         BENEFICIAL      NON-BENEFICIAL
                               PURCHASED      INTEREST        INTEREST
                                              FOLLOWING THIS  FOLLOWING THIS
                                              NOTIFICATION    NOTIFICATION

David Arculus                  1,522          17,428          -
Sir Richard Broadbent          1,096          3,949           -
Dame Hilary Cropper            1,584          6,431           -
Professor Dame Sandra Dawson   1,148          5,460           -
Sir Brian Jenkins              1,358          4,363           105,200
Sir Nigel Rudd                 1,460          14,367          -
Stephen Russell                1,575          13,738          -
Dr Jurgen Zech                 1,412          7,964           -






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