Directorate Change

Rathbone Brothers PLC
27 November 2003


RATHBONE BROTHERS PLC

DIRECTORATE CHANGE

Rathbone Brothers Plc, the investment management Company with over £5bn of
discretionary funds under management, announces that Ian Buckley, who has been a
Non Executive Director of the Company since December 2001, has been appointed
Chief Executive of the Company's Trust Division with effect from 27 November
2003.

He will remain on the Board as an Executive Director and joins the Executive
Committee.

Mark Powell, Chairman of Rathbones, said 'We are very pleased that Ian Buckley
has agreed to take up this new role. He has a great deal of relevant experience
of professional services and private banking. He will be working with Paul
Egerton-Vernon, the Chairman of our Trust Division. Together they will be a very
strong team'.


Mark Powell

Chairman

27 November 2003



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