Directors' Dealings

BARCLAYS PLC
20 August 1999


Notification of directors' interests: Companies Act s329


The trustees of the Barclays Qualifying Employee Share
Ownership Trust (the 'Quest') notified the Company on 19
August 1999 that they subscribed on 17 August 1999 for a
total of 29,437 Barclays PLC ordinary shares at a price
of 1826p per share.  Following this transaction, the
trustees of the Quest held a total of 29,437 Barclays PLC
ordinary shares in which the following directors of
Barclays PLC had an interest as potential beneficiaries:
Sir Peter Middleton, Mr C J Lendrum, Sir Andrew Large, Mr
O H J Stocken, and Mr J S Varley.  (The Quest is a trust
established to distribute shares to employees of the
Barclays Group on the exercise of options granted under
the Barclays PLC 1991 SAYE Share Option Scheme (the
'Scheme').)

The trustees of the Quest also notified the Company on 19
August 1999 that they had transferred on 17 August 1999
29,437 Barclays PLC ordinary shares to participants in
the Scheme following the exercise of their options.
Following this transaction, each of the directors listed
above ceased to have an interest in such shares.