Rathbone Brothers PLC : Director/PDMR Shareholding

Rathbone Brothers Plc (the 'Company')
Directors' and PDMRs' shareholdings

In accordance with the rules of the Company's executive director profit share plan (the 'Plan'), following the payment of an interim Rathbone Brothers Plc dividend for 2012 of 17p per share on 3 October 2012, the following directors and PDMRs were awarded notional deferred 'dividend share' awards of Rathbone Brothers Plc ordinary shares. The number of shares was calculated at £13.05 being the closing mid-market share price on 3 October 2012 in accordance with the Plan rules.

Ordinarily, deferred dividend share awards will vest when the underlying deferred share awards vest on the third anniversary of the end of the relevant financial year. Vesting is not subject to the satisfaction of performance conditions but all or part of an award may lapse in certain circumstances, for example in the event of the director being considered a 'bad leaver'.

Director/ PDMR*	Deferred 'dividend share' award	Total holding (beneficial)	% of issued share capital (excluding treasury shares)	Total holding (non- beneficial)	% of issued share capital (excluding treasury shares)
I M Buckley	264	59,134	0.135%	-	-
P D G Chavasse	336	80,576	0.184%	-	-
R P Lanyon*	545	212,186	0.484%	18,000	0.041%
A T Morris	241	75,422	0.172%	-	-
A D Pomfret	523	122,460	0.279%	-	-
R I Smeeton	536	136,871	0.312%	-	-
R P Stockton	319	31,815	0.073%	-	-

Richard Loader
Company Secretary

4 October 2012

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