Director Shareholding

British American Tobacco PLC
19 August 2003

DIRECTORS' INTERESTS

The independent trustee of the British American Tobacco Group Employee Trust
notified the Company on 19 August 2003 that between 14 August 2003 and 19 August
2003:

a)         it had released 3,941 British American Tobacco p.l.c. 25p ordinary
shares (the "Shares") to a participant in the British American Tobacco Deferred
Share Bonus Scheme.

b)         it had disposed of 36,694 British American Tobacco p.l.c. 25p
ordinary shares (the "Shares") to satisfy the exercise of options under the
Company's share option scheme.

The participants in respect of whom the shares were released or disposed are not
directors of British American Tobacco p.l.c.

Following these transactions, the independent trustee of the British American
Tobacco Group Employee Trust holds a total of 32,940,425 Shares. The following
executive directors, together with other employees, are potential beneficiaries
and are therefore treated as having an interest: Mr P N Adams, Mr M F Broughton,
Mr P A Rayner and Mr A Monteiro de Castro.


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