Directorate Change

Beazley Group PLC
07 December 2006


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Press Release


Clive Washbourn joins Beazley Board


London, 7 December, 2006 - Beazley Group plc (BEZ.L) is pleased to announce the
appointment of Clive Washbourn as an executive director with effect from 4th
December 2006.

Clive joined Beazley in 1998 to head up Beazley's Marine Team. Since then, he
has added considerable value to the business, growing the marine account by over
£100m.

Clive has over twenty four years experience in the marine insurance industry, is
a member of the LMA Marine Committee and recently succeeded Rupert Atkin as
Chairman of the Joint War Committee.

Clive's appointment adds to the significant strengthening of the board over the
past 12 months, with three non-executive director appointments, including Dan
Jones, Marty Becker and Gordon Hamilton. However, Clive's appointment is the
first executive board appointment since Beazley's IPO in 2002.

Andrew Beazley, CEO of Beazley, said:

'Clive's leadership and expertise over the past eight years have proved
invaluable to the ongoing success and growth of the business and I am sure he
will make a big contribution at Board level. His appointment underlines our
philosophy of having strong underwriting experience at Board level.'

There are no matters relating to this appointment that are required to be 
announced under paragraph 9.6.13R of the Listing Rules.


ENDS



For further information, please contact:


Beazley Group plc
Andrew Beazley
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Finsbury
Amanda Lee
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Note to Editors:


Beazley Group, plc (BEZ.L), based in London, is the parent company of global,
specialist insurance businesses with operations in the UK, US, France, Singapore
and Hong Kong. Beazley manages two Lloyd's syndicates (Syndicate 2623 and
Syndicate 623) with aggregate underwriting capacity in 2006 of £830m (US$1.5bn).
Both syndicates are rated A by A.M. Best. In the US, Beazley's underwriters
focus on writing specialist insurance products in the admitted market, backed by
Beazley Insurance Company, Inc., an admitted carrier in all 50 states; and
surplus lines risks, backed by the Beazley syndicates at Lloyd's. Beazley
Insurance Company is rated A- by A.M. Best.


Beazley is a market leader in many of its chosen lines including professional
indemnity, commercial property, marine, reinsurance, and personal lines.


For more information please go to: www.beazley.com




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