Holding(s) in Company

Rathbone Brothers PLC
12 September 2005


Rathbone Brothers Plc ('the Company')
Ordinary Shares of 5p
Disclosure of Interests in Shares


On 12 September 2005, the Company received the following notification from
Fidelity Investments dated 9 September 2005.


Notification under Sections 198 to 202, Companies Act 1985

1. Notifiable Interest

Fidelity International Limited (FIL)
P O BOX HM 670
Hamilton HMCX, Bermuda

Parent holding company for various direct and indirect subsidiaries, including
Fidelity Investment Services Limited (FISL), Fidelity Gestion (FIGEST), Fidelity
Investments Advisory (Korea) Limited (FIAKL), Fidelity Investments Management
(Hong Kong) Limited (FIMHKL), Fidelity Pension Management (FPM), Fidelity
Investments Japan (FIJ) and Fidelity Investments International (FII), investment
managers for various non-US investment companies and institutional clients. (See
Schedule A for listing of Registered Shareholders and their holdings).

2. The notifiable interests also comprise the notifiable interest of:

Mr Edward C Johnson 3d
82 Devonshire Street
Boston MA 02109

A principal shareholder of FMR Corp. and Fidelity International Limited

3. The notifiable interests include interests held on behalf of
authorised unit trust schemes in the UK, notwithstanding the exemption from
reporting pursuant to Section 209 (1)(h) of the Companies Act 1985.

4. These notifications of disclosable interests constitute separate
notifications of interest in the shares and are combined solely for the purposes
of clarity and efficiency. Nothing herein should be taken to indicate that FMR
Corp. and its direct and indirect subsidiaries, Fidelity International Limited
and its direct and indirect subsidiaries or Mr Edward C Johnson 3d act as a
group or in concert in respect of the disclosed interest, or that they are
required to submit these notifications on a joint basis.

5. The disclosable interests arise under section 208 (4) (b) of the
Act, namely where a person, not being the registered holder, is entitled to
exercise a right conferred by the holding of the shares or to control the
exercise of such rights, or under section 203 of the Act respectively.

Schedule A

Shares Held    Management Company         Nominee/Registered name
     160,287   FPM                        JP Morgan, Bournemouth
       8,100   FPM                        Northern Trust, London
      41,585   FISL                       JP Morgan, Bournemouth
   2,210,154   FIL                        Brown Bros Harriman Ltd Lux
      10,030   FIL                        Northern Trust, London

The total number of Ordinary Shares held under this notifiable interest is
2,430,156, a reduction of 105,183 Ordinary Shares since the last filing. The
current holding represents 5.92% of the shares in issue.

Richard Loader
Company Secretary

Telephone [phone]

12 September 2005


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