Holding(s) in Company

RIT Capital Partners PLC
08 October 2002


RIT Capital Partners plc ('RITCP') received notification on 8 October 2002 that,
following a market purchase of 34,000 ordinary shares on 4 October 2002, Legal &
General Investment Management now holds 4,730,206 ordinary £1 shares of RITCP
which represents 3.01% of the issued share capital.  These will be registered as
follows:

HSBC Global Custody Nominee (UK) Ltd A/C 775245     792,475
HSBC Global Custody Nominee (UK) Ltd A/C 360509     141,757
HSBC Global Custody Nominee (UK) Ltd A/C 357206   3,650,974
HSBC Global Custody Nominee (UK) Ltd A/C 866203     145,000
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                                                  4,730,206
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