Director Shareholding

British American Tobacco PLC
2 July 2002



DIRECTORS' INTERESTS


The independent trustee of the British American Tobacco Group Employee Trust
notified the Company on 1 July 2002 that it had between 28 June and 1 July 2002
released 23,338 British American Tobacco p.l.c. 25p ordinary shares (the
"Shares") to participants in the British American Tobacco Deferred Share Bonus
Scheme (the "Scheme"). The participants to whom shares were released are not
directors of British American Tobacco p.l.c.  In addition, the independent
trustee notified the Company on 1 July 2002 that 19,887 Shares released in error
to a participant in the Scheme on 28 May 2002 had been returned to the Trust.
The participant to whom the shares had been released was not a director of
British American Tobacco p.l.c.



Following these transactions, the independent trustee of the British American
Tobacco Group Employee Trust holds a total of 34,665,705 Shares. The following
executive directors, together with other employees, are potential beneficiaries
and are therefore treated as having an interest: Mr P N Adams, Mr M F Broughton,
Mr A Monteiro de Castro and Mr P A Rayner.





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