Holding(s) in Company

Victrex PLC
14 July 2005


                           SCHEDULE 10
 
             NOTIFICATION OF MAJOR INTERESTS IN SHARES


1)   NAME OF COMPANY

     VICTREX PLC    

2)   NAME OF SHAREHOLDER HAVING A MAJOR INTEREST

     SCHRODER INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT LIMITED

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 BELOW

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

     SEE BELOW

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

     ORDINARY SHARES OF 1P EACH.

10)  Date of transaction

     13.07.05

11)  Date company informed

     13.07.05

12)  Total holding following this notification

     9,243,174
               
13)  Total percentage holding of issued class following this notification

     11.4%

14)  Any additional information



15)  Name of contact and telephone number for queries

     SONYA J. MOORE
     01253 897708

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

                               SONYA J. MOORE
                               ASSISTANT COMPANY SECRETARY
     Date of Notification      14 JULY 2005


Letter to: Victrex plc
Dated: 13 July 2005

VICTREX PLC 
1p ORDINARY SHARES ('SHARES')


We write to advise you that we, Schroder Investment Management Limited, have an
interest in 9,243,174 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.)  5,517,375 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.) 3,725,799 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
414,427.

An affiliated company, Schroder & Co, Limited (S&Co Limited), is managing a
portfolio holding a further 16,500 shares which are registered or to be
registered in the name of Brown Brothers Harriman.

We believe that we and our subsidiary and affiliated companies are therefore
interested in an overall aggregate of 9,674,101 shares, representing some
11.959% of the total number of shares in issue, namely 80,891,749 shares.

This notification is made to you: -

(a) in respect of our interest as investment managers,

(b) on behalf of S&Co, 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 S&Co, SIMNA Ltd, SUTL and ourselves.

                             
 
                              SCHEDULE A

                            VICTREX PLC                              
                         1p ORDINARY SHARES

REGISTRATION                                                 AMOUNT

British Coal Staff Superannuation a/c: P                    800,000
Chase Manhattan Bank                                      1,013,505
Chase Nominees Limited                                      560,000
Mineworkers' Pension Scheme a/c: R                          942,759
Nortrust Nominees Limited                                   400,000
Unibank Torvegade                                             9,535        

Total                                                     3,725,799


Letter from: Schroders


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