THO Thistle Hotels

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Thistle Hotels PLC
4 November 1999



               THISTLE BOARD APPOINTMENTS
                            

Thistle  Hotels  Plc has today announced the  appointment
with  effect from 3 November 1999 of Greg Terry  and  Lau
Wing Tat as Non-Executive Directors.

Mr  Terry  has  been  nominated by  Brierley  Investments
Limited  (BIL), which has an approximate 46% shareholding
in   Thistle   Hotels,  to  succeed  one   of   its   two
representative Directors, Mr Rupert Morley, who has  also
stepped down from the Board today.  Lau Wing Tat has been
nominated  by  the  Government  of  Singapore  Investment
Corporation and Havelock Investments, each of  which  are
investment  arms  of the Government of  Singapore,  which
together hold an approximate 20% shareholding in  Thistle
Hotels.  Mr Lau succeeds representative Director, Ng  Kok
Song, who has also stepped down from the Board today.

Greg   Terry  is  Chief  Executive  Officer  of  Brierley
Investments Limited and is based in Singapore.  Prior  to
joining  BIL,  he was Vice Chairman of the  Asia  Pacific
Region  and  Managing  Director of  Credit  Suisse  First
Boston.   From  1987 to 1997, he was Director  and  Group
General  Counsel of the Jardine Matheson  Group  in  Hong
Kong.

Mr  Terry  began  his  career as  an  Australian  Foreign
Service  Officer  and  has  practised  corporate  law  in
Australia,  Hong  Kong  and the  United  States.   Before
joining  Jardine  Matheson,  he  was  Vice  President  of
Burlington  Northern  Inc., a  US  railroad  and  natural
resources conglomerate.

Mr  Terry received his LLB in law from the University  of
Melbourne and his MA in international relations from  the
Fletcher  School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts  University.
He  is  Chairman of the Advisory Board of the South  East
Asian Studies Program at the Fletcher School.

Lau  Wing Tat is currently an Assistant Director  at  the
Government    of    Singapore   Investment    Corporation
responsible  for managing investments across  the  world.
Mr  Lau  has  a Bachelor of Engineering (1st Class  Hons)
from the University of Singapore.  He is also a Chartered
Financial Analyst.  He is married with two children.

Mr  Terry held directorships of UK listed companies Dairy
Farm  International  Holdings Limited,  Jardine  Matheson
Holdings  Limited  and  Mandarin  Oriental  International
Limited  until 30th April 1997.  Mr Lau is, and  has  not
been  in  the last five years, a director of a UK  listed
company.  There  is no further disclosure required  under
Paragraph 6F2 for either director.

In  welcoming the two new Non-Executive Directors to  the
Board,  David  Newbigging, Chairman  of  Thistle  Hotels,
said,  "Greg Terry's and Lau Wing Tat's broad  experience
of  business internationally will enable them to  make  a
significant contribution to Thistle."

Notes to Editors:

Thistle Hotels is one of the UK's leading four-star hotel
companies with over 55 properties in key city centre  and
countryside  locations.  It is London's largest  hotelier
with   23   hotels  (6,348  rooms)  in  prime   locations
throughout the capital.

For further information:

David K. Newbigging, Chairman, Thistle Hotels    Tel: 020 7506 1000
Ian Burke, Chief Executive, Thistle Hotels       Tel: 020 7723 0101
Nick Denton, Hogarth Partnership                 Tel: 020 7357 9477


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