Appointment of Director

Mothercare PLC
01 August 2002




CER/LSM/Stock Exchange-IRP                                         1 August 2002

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Dear Sirs

MOTHERCARE PLC: IAN REX PEACOCK

Mothercare plc is pleased to announce the appointment of Ian Rex Peacock as a
non-executive director of the Company with effect from 1st August 2002. The
following details are submitted pursuant to chapter 16, paragraph 4 of the
listing rules of the Financial Services Authority, as at the effective date of
his appointment as non-executive director of Mothercare plc (1 August 2002).

 a. directorships of other Publicly quoted companies in

    the last 5 years:

    MFI Furniture Group plc

    i-documentsystems group plc


 b. the names of all companies (public or private) and partnerships of

    which such person has been a director or partner at any time in the

    previous five years, indicating whether or not the individual is still a

    director or partner. 

    It is not necessary to list all the subsidiaries of a company of which the
    
    person is or was also a director;


    MFI Furniture Group plc (current chairman)

    Lombard Risk Management plc (current director)

    i-documentsystems group plc (current director)

    Norwich and Peterborough Building Society (current director)

    WRVS Office Premises Limited (current director)


 c. any unspent convictions in relation to indictable offences;

    NONE


 d. details of any bankruptcies or individual voluntary arrangements of

    such person;


    NONE


 e. details of any receiverships, compulsory liquidations, creditors

    voluntary liquidations, administrations, company voluntary arrangements or

    any composition or arrangement with its creditors

    generally or any class of its creditors of any company where such

    person was a director with an executive function at the time of or      .

    within the 12 months preceding such events;



    NONE


 f. details of any compulsory liquidations, administrations or partnership

    voluntary arrangements of any partnerships where such person was a

    partner at the time of or within the 12 months preceding such events;


    NONE


 g. details of receiverships of any asset of such person or of a partnership

    of which the person was a partner at the time of or within the 12 months

    preceding such event;


    NONE



 h. details of any public criticisms of such person by statutory or


    regulatory authorities (including recognised professional bodies) and

    whether such person has ever been disqualified by a court from acting

    as a director of a company or from acting in the management or

    conduct of the affairs of any company.

    Mr Peacock was a director of Kleinwort Benson Limited from 1985 to May 1994.
    In January 1994 the company was publicly criticised by LIFFE (London
    International Financial Futures and Options Exchange) regarding its futures
    trading activities and fined £15,000. Mr Peacock was not directly
    responsible for this area of business and was not publicly criticised
    himself by LIFFE in relation to it.



Yours faithfully


Lynne Medini

Assistant Company Secretary


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