Directors' Dealings

BARCLAYS PLC
8 September 1999


   NOTIFICATION OF INTEREST: COMPANIES ACT 1985 s.329
                            

The independent trustee of the Barclays Group (PSP &
ESOS) Employees' Benefit Trust (the 'trust') notified the
Company on 8 September 1999 that they have, on 6 and 7
September 1999 respectively, released 110,078 and 13,672 
Barclays PLC ordinary shares to participants who
exercised their awards under the Performance Share Plan
('PSP').  The ordinary shares acquired by directors of
Barclays PLC and the number of ordinary shares sold on
their behalf by the trustees to meet their tax
liabilities are set out below, together with details of
the shares retained by them:

Director    Shares    Shares sold on 6     Shares
            acquired  September 1999 on    Retained
                      behalf of directors
                      to meet tax
                      liabilities at a
                      price of £18.23 per
                      ordinary share
                      
Mr C J       10,607   4,240                6,367
Lendrum
Mr O H J     18,739   -                    18,739
Stocken

The revised total share interest for each director who
has acquired shares under PSP, following these
transactions, is as follows:

Director           Beneficial Holding  Non Beneficial
                                       Holding
                                       
Mr C J Lendrum     35,902              -
Mr O H J Stocken   48,545              22,350

The independent trustee of the trust also notified the
Company on 8 September 1999 that they have on 6 September
1999 awarded rights, under the PSP, to directors of
Barclays PLC to acquire shares as follows:

Director                        Shares Awarded
                                
D Allvey                        26,566
C J Lendrum                     13,982
J S Varley                      13,982

The trust is a discretionary trust for the benefit of
employees and former employees (and, in each case, their
families) of Barclays Bank PLC and its subsidiaries.
Following these transactions, the trustee of all the
Barclays Group employees' benefit trusts hold a total of
9,157,036 shares in Barclays PLC in which the following
directors of Barclays PLC have an interest as potential
beneficiaries: Mr D Allvey, Sir Andrew Large, Mr C J
Lendrum, Sir Peter Middleton, Mr O H J Stocken, and Mr J
S Varley.