Issue of Equity

BlackRock Throgmorton Trust Plc - Issue of Equity

PR Newswire

London, January 8

BlackRock Throgmorton Trust plc (“Company”)

LEI - 5493003B7ETS1JEDPF59

Issue of Equity

The Company announces that 340,000 Ordinary shares of 5p each were today sold by the Company from the shares held in Treasury at a price of 683.75 pence per share which represented a premium to net asset value.

The resultant total number of Ordinary shares held in Treasury by the Company is 3,340,086. The number of ordinary shares that the Company has in issue, less the total number of ordinary shares held by the Company in Treasury following this sale, is 77,190,240. With effect from 10 January 2020 the total number of voting rights of the Company will be 77,190,240. This figure may be used by shareholders as the denominator for the calculations by which they will determine if they are required to notify their interest in, or a change to their interest in the Company, under the Disclosure Guidance and Transparency Rules.

Contact name for queries:

Kevin Maygerfor and on behalf of BlackRock Investment Management (UK) Limited, Company SecretaryTel: 020 7743 1098

8 January 2020