Directorate Change

Lloyds TSB Group PLC
01 February 2008

07/08
                                                 1 February 2008


LLOYDS TSB GROUP APPOINTS NEW NON-EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

The board is pleased to announce the appointment of Sir David Manning, GCMG, CVO
as a non-executive director of both Lloyds TSB Group plc and Lloyds TSB Bank plc
from 1st May 2008.

Sir Victor Blank, Chairman of Lloyds TSB Group, said: "We are delighted that Sir
David has accepted our invitation to join the board in May.  His wise counsel
and particular knowledge, skills and experience, gained during a distinguished
career in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, will be invaluable to our group.
We are pleased to have secured his services following his retirement as Her
Majesty's Ambassador to the United States of America."


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1.   Biographical details are attached.

2.   To comply with paragraph LR 9.6.13R of the UK Listing Authority listing 
     rules, the company confirms that:
          
     (i)  Sir David has not held any directorship in any publicly quoted company 
          at any time in the past five years;
          
     (ii) there are no matters required by paragraphs LR 9.6.13R (2) to (6)
          of the listing rules to be disclosed in relation to Sir David Manning; 
          and
          
     (iii)under the rules on the acceptance of outside appointments by Crown 
          servants, Sir David applied for permission to accept this appointment. 
          The Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, on the 
          advice of the Advisory Committee on Business Appointments, approved 
          the application subject to the 3 month waiting period from Sir David's 
          last day of Crown service normally applied to Crown servants at 
          Sir David's level, and the condition that, for 12 months from that 
          same date, he should not become personally involved in lobbying UK                
          Government Ministers or officials on behalf of Lloyds TSB Group plc.



Sir David Manning

Biographical details:


2003 - 2007:       Washington, USA (Ambassador)
2001 - 2003:       Foreign Policy Adviser to the Prime Minister
2001:              UK Delegation NATO Brussels (Ambassador)
1998 - 2000:       Foreign and Commonwealth Office (Deputy Under-Secretary)
1995 - 1998:       Tel Aviv, Israel (Ambassador)
1994 - 1995:       Foreign and Commonwealth Office (Head of Policy Planning 
                   Staff)
1994:              UK member of Contact Group on Bosnia (International 
                   Conference on Former Yugoslavia)
1993 - 1994:       Foreign and Commonwealth Office (Head of Eastern Department)
1990 - 1993:       Moscow, Russia (Counsellor, Head of Chancery)
1988 - 1990:       Counsellor on loan to Cabinet Office
1984 - 1988:       Paris, France (1st Secretary)
1982 - 1984:       Foreign and Commonwealth Office (Deputy Head of Policy 
                   Planning Staff)
1980 - 1982:       Foreign and Commonwealth Office (Soviet Department)
1977 - 1980:       New Delhi, India (2nd later 1st Secretary)
1974 - 1977:       Warsaw, Poland (3rd later 2nd Secretary)
1972 - 1974:       Foreign and Commonwealth Office (Mexico/Central America 
                   Department)
1972:              Entered Foreign and Commonwealth Office



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Investor Relations
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Media
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                           FORWARD LOOKING STATEMENTS

This announcement contains forward looking statements with respect to the
business, strategy and plans of the Lloyds TSB Group, its current goals and
expectations relating to its future financial condition and performance.  By
their nature, forward looking statements involve risk and uncertainty because
they relate to events and depend on circumstances that will occur in the future.
  The Group's actual future results may differ materially from the results
expressed or implied in these forward looking statements as a result of a
variety of factors, including UK domestic and global economic and business
conditions, risks concerning borrower credit quality, market related risks such
as interest rate risk and exchange rate risk in its banking business and equity
risk in its insurance businesses, changing demographic trends, unexpected
changes to regulation, the policies and actions of governmental and regulatory
authorities in the UK or jurisdictions outside the UK, including other European
countries and the US, changes in customer preferences, competition and other
factors.  Please refer to the latest Annual Report on Form 20-F filed with the
US Securities and Exchange Commission for a discussion of such factors.  The
forward looking statements contained in this announcement are made as at the
date of this announcement, and the Group undertakes no obligation to update any
of its forward looking statements.


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