Holding(s) in Company

Victrex PLC
7 April 2005



                           SCHEDULE 10
 
             NOTIFICATION OF MAJOR INTERESTS IN SHARES


1)   NAME OF COMPANY

VICTREX PLC

2)   NAME OF SHAREHOLDER HAVING A MAJOR INTEREST

SCHRODERS PLC

3)   Please state whether notification indicates that it is in respect of 
     holding of the Shareholder named in 2 above or in respect of a 
     non-beneficial interest or in the case of an individual holder if it is a
     holding of that person's spouse or children under the age of 18

SEE ATTACHED

4)   Name of the registered holder(s) and, if more than one holder, the 
     number of shares held by each of them.

SEE ATTACHED

5)   Number of shares/amount of stock acquired.



6)   Percentage of issued Class


7)   Number of shares/amount of stock disposed


8)   Percentage of issued Class


9)   Class of security

ORD 1P SHARES

10)  Date of transaction



11)  Date company informed

06.04.05

12)  Total holding following this notification

9,642,830
               
13)  Total percentage holding of issued class following this notification

11.922%

14)  Any additional information



15)  Name of contact and telephone number for queries

JANET M. MYERS
01253 897439

16)  Name and signature of authorised company official responsible for 
     making this notification

     Date of Notification ............  7 APRIL 2005  ............



Letter to   Victrex Plc
Dated       06 April 2005



VICTREX PLC
1p ORDINARY SHARES ('SHARES')


We write to advise you that we, Schroder Investment Management Limited, have an
interest in 8,812,403 shares which are held in portfolios managed by us on a
discretionary basis for clients under investment management agreements.

Included in this figure are:-

(i.)  5,167,375 shares held in (a) unit trust(s) operated and managed by an
      affiliated company, Schroder Unit Trusts Limited (SUTL), and registered or 
      to be registered in the name of Chase Nominees Limited,

(ii.) 3,645,028 shares neither registered nor to be registered in the name of 
      Schroder Nominees. The Registration details are shown on Schedule A.

An affiliated company, Schroder Investment Management North America Limited
(SIMNA Ltd), is managing (a) portfolio(s) on a similar basis holding a further
814,427 shares which are registered or to be registered in the name of Chase
Nominees Limited.

We believe that we and our subsidiary and affiliated companies are therefore
interested in an overall aggregate of 9,642,830 shares, representing some
11.978% of the total number of shares in issue, namely 80,507,108 shares.

This notification is made to you: -
     
(a)   in respect of our interest as investment managers,

(b)   on behalf of SIMNA Ltd and SUTL in relation to the interests they are
      treated as having respectively under the Companies Act 1985 (the Act), and

(c)   on behalf of Schroders plc., our holding company, which is treated as 
      having an interest in all of the above shares under the Act by virtue of 
      its ownership of SIMNA Ltd, SUTL and ourselves. 



LETTER FROM:  SCHRODER INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT LIMITED



                                 VICTREX PLC
                                   
                                 SCHEDULE A

                              1p ORDINARY SHARES


REGISTRATION                                           AMOUNT

British Coal Staff Superannuation a/c: P            1,000,000
Chase Nominees Limited                                942,734
Mineworkers' Pension Scheme                         1,242,759
Nortrust Nominees Limited                             450,000
Unibank Torvegade                                       9,535

TOTAL                                               3,645,028







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