Director/PDMR Shareholding

Rathbone Brothers PLC
17 May 2006

Rathbone Brothers Plc
Director and PDMR Shareholding

On 12 May 2006, ordinary shares of 5p were acquired at £12.27 (the closing mid
market price on 11 May 2006) by Hill Samuel ESOP Trustees Limited who are the
Trustees of The Rathbone Inland Revenue Approved Employee Share Incentive Plan
('the Plan'). The purchase was in respect of the reinvestment of dividends paid
into the Plan. The registered holder is Lloyds TSB Registrars Corporate Nominees
Limited. A/c AESOP1.

The following directors and persons discharging managerial responsibility (PDMR)
are beneficial owners of the following shares (subject to the terms and
conditions of the Plan Trust Deed and Rules).

Director/PDMR         Purchase Total holding following      Total % holding 
                                       notification      following notification
                                Beneficial         Non    Beneficial        Non 
                                            beneficial               beneficial
Director

J C Barclay                 17       1,502           -        0.004%          -
I M Buckley                 16      18,893           -        0.045%          -
C M Burton                  17       1,502           -        0.004%          -
P D G Chavasse              37      10,147           -        0.024%          -
J G S Coode-Adams           40       9,264           -        0.022%          -
S M Desborough              41       8,130           -        0.019%          -
R P Lanyon                  41     217,707           -        0.517%          -
The Viscount Lifford        41      90,790      20,000        0.216%     0.047%
A T Morris                  41      29,416           -        0.070%          -
R A Morris                  41     238,970      50,610        0.567%     0.120%
P G Pearson Lund            41       3,630           -        0.009%          -
A D Pomfret                 52      43,632           -        0.104%          -
G M Powell                  41     312,474      10,000        0.742%     0.024%
R I Smeeton                 41     117,630           -        0.279%          -

PDMR

H M B Adlington             41      53,130           -        0.126%          -
R N K Baron                 41      99,130           -        0.235%          -
T J Bolton Carter           41      26,119           -        0.062%          -
J R Chillingworth           37       2,868           -        0.007%          -
Lord Clifton                41      10,558           -        0.025%          -
H M C Cunningham            41      39,963           -        0.095%          -
L A C Dodd                  41      45,340           -        0.108%          -
T E Eliot-Cohen             41      86,167           -        0.205%          -
C M Gore Langton            41     195,840           -        0.465%          -
J G Henderson               41      35,634           -        0.085%          -
C R C Hexton                41      92,485           -        0.220%          -
R C Hughes-Penney           41       3,627           -        0.009%          -
B Kenny                     41      76,054           -        0.181%          -
R E Loader                  41      62,730           -        0.149%          -
C P Mason                    5         726           -        0.002%          -
J I Moorley                 41      20,674           -        0.049%          -
C R Stick                   41       3,130           -        0.007%          -
J B Vernon                  41       3,130           -        0.007%          -


Richard Loader
Company Secretary
17 May 2006




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