Director/PDMR Shareholding

Hiscox PLC
02 December 2005


Over the course of the Rights Issue, the directors of Hiscox PLC ('Hiscox' or 
the 'Company') have variously taken up, sold or lapsed rights as detailed in 
the following table. Please note that all sales of nil-paid rights transacted 
prior to today in the table below have previously been notified to the market.


                  Beneficial                    Rights    Resulting
            holding prior to        Rights     sold or   Beneficial   Percentage
                Rights Issue   Entitlement      lapsed      Holding          (%)
DIRECTORS
R R S HISCOX       8,927,754     2,919,373   2,464,627    9,382,500         2.40
B E MASOJADA       2,370,400       775,114     442,612    2,702,902         0.69
S J BRIDGES          347,308       113,569           -      460,877         0.12
R S CHILDS         1,216,777       397,886     232,596    1,382,067         0.35
S H HALL              35,500        11,608       1,608       45,500         0.01
D N D                 15,000         4,905           -       19,905         0.01
NETHERTON 
A HOWLAND             49,589        16,215           -       65,804         0.02
JACKSON           
C FRANKLIN            17,550         5,738       5,738       17,550       < 0.01
ENGLER            
M K PEDELTY                -             -           -            -         0.00
A AUER                     -             -           -            -         0.00

PDMRS
C DUPPLIN            389,027       127,211       1,308      514,930         0.13
S LANGAN                   -             -           -            -         0.00
S C LANGLEY           91,043        29,771      29,771       91,043         0.02
R C WATSON           356,983       116,733       8,514      465,202         0.12


The executive directors of the Company are potential beneficiaries of the Hiscox 
employee's share ownership plan trust (the 'ESOP') and are therefore each 
deemed to have an interest in 135,782 Hiscox shares owned by Hiscox Trustees 
Limited, the trustee of the ESOP.

R.R.S. Hiscox has a further non-beneficial interest in 580,237 shares 
representing 0.15% of the share capital of the Company.




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