Directorate

Barclays PLC
30 December 2004



                                                

                                                                30 December 2004

                              DAME HILARY CROPPER

Barclays PLC and Barclays Bank PLC regret to announce the death of their
director Dame Hilary Cropper, CBE. Dame Hilary Cropper, who had been suffering
from cancer, joined the Board as a non-executive Director in 1998 and died on 26
December 2004 at the age of 63 years.





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