Director/PDMR Shareholding

Rathbone Brothers PLC
28 September 2006




Rathbone Brothers Plc ('the Company')
Directors' shareholding - Long Term Incentive Plan


The independent trustee of the Rathbone Brothers Plc Long Term Incentive Plan
('LTIP') has notified the company that on 28 September 2006 it purchased 100,000
Rathbone Brothers Plc ordinary shares of 5p ('ordinary shares') at £11.10
representing 0.237% of the issued share capital of the Company. The shares are
registered in the name of Investec Bank (CI) Nominees Limited. Following this
transaction, the trustee holds a total of 100,000 ordinary shares.

The following directors are LTIP participants and potential beneficiaries and
are therefore treated as having an interest.


I M Buckley
P D G Chavasse
S M Desborough
R P Lanyon
Viscount Lifford
A T Morris
R A Morris
A D Pomfret
G M Powell
R I Smeeton



Richard Loader
Company Secretary
28 September 2006
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