Annual Financial Report

Rathbone Brothers Plc ('the Company')

Report and Accounts for 2009 and Notice of AGM

The Company's Report and Accounts for 2009 and Notice of the 2010 Annual General Meeting have now been published. Copies of these documents have been submitted to the UK Listing Authority and are available for inspection at the UK Listing Authority's Document Viewing Facility, which is situated at:

The Financial Services Authority

25 The North Colonnade

Canary Wharf

London

E14 5HS

The documents are also available from the Company's registered office at:

159 New Bond Street

London

W1S 2UD

and on the Company's website at www.rathbones.com

Richard Loader

Company Secretary

19 March 2010

Tel: 020 7399 0000