Director Shareholding

British American Tobacco PLC
03 August 2004

DIRECTORS' INTERESTS

The independent trustee of the British American Tobacco Group Employee Trust
notified the Company on 3 August 2004 that it had on 3 August 2004 released
18,707 Shares to participants in the British American Tobacco Deferred Share
Bonus Scheme.

The participants to whom shares were released are not directors 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 29,720,404 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 P A Rayner and
Mr A Monteiro de Castro.


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