RNS No 7337a 
FOREIGN & COLONIAL PACIFIC INVESTMENT TRUST PLC
1st July 1997
 
 
               Foreign & Colonial Pacific Investment Trust PLC
                           Appoint a New Director
                                      
Foreign  & Colonial Pacific Investment Trust PLC is pleased to announce  that
Mr  Christopher Purvis has been appointed as a non-executive director of  the
Company with effect from 1st July 1997.
 
Mr  Purvis, 46, was until recently a Managing Director of SBC Warburg, having
joined in 1974.  He was Branch Manager of the Tokyo office from 1982 to  1987
and again from 1989 to 1992.  Most recently he was Chief Operating Officer of
the Corporate Finance Division of SBC Warburg based in London.
 
The Chairman of the Trust, Mr A J Davis, commented:-

"We  are  delighted to welcome Christopher to the Board of Foreign & Colonial
Pacific.   Not only will the company benefit greatly from his experience  and
knowledge  of  the City, but also from his specialist advice in  relation  to
Japan."
 
Contact:  Ian Wright,
          Foreign & Colonial                 0171 628 8000
 
          David Lloyd, Audrey Yeung
          Financial Dynamics                 0171 831 3113
 

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