AGM Statement

Brewin Dolphin Holdings PLC

(the 'Company')

24 February 2012

AGM Statement

Jamie Matheson at the AGM today made the following announcement:-

"I am pleased to inform you that the Board has today appointed David Nicol to the Company's Board of Directors as a Non-Executive Director to take effect from 1st March 2012, he will also become a member of the Audit Committee

David Nicol has a wealth of experience and we have every confidence that he will make a very significant contribution to the Company."  

David Nicol is currently on the Board of the Chartered Institute of Securities and Investments and is a Special Adviser to KPMG.

David was a Director of Morgan Stanley International PLC from 2004 to 2010. He chaired the Pension Scheme from 2005 to 2011 and was Chair of the Audit Committee in 2011. He worked for Morgan Stanley for 26 years in a number of Operations and Finance roles and was appointed EMEA CAO in 2004. David was a Non-Executive Director of Euroclear plc from 1998 to 2010. He trained and qualified in 1980 as a Chartered Accountant with Ernst & Young and spent two years working for KPMG in Hong Kong before joining Morgan Stanley in London in1984.

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