Beazley plc

Form of Proxy for use at the Annual General Meeting of Beazley plc (the "Company") to be held on 25 April 2023 at 2.30 pm at

22 Bishopsgate, London, EC2N 4BQ.

Shareholder Name

NOTICE OF AVAILABILITY - Important; please read carefully

You can now access the Annual Report and Accounts 2022 and Notice of Annual General Meeting 2023 at https://investor.relations.beazley.com/. You can submit your proxy online at www.sharevote.co.uk using the details on the Form of Proxy below or if you have already registered with Equiniti Limited's online portfolio service, Shareview, you can submit your Form of Proxy at www.shareview.co.uk.

You are advised to read the full Notice of Annual General Meeting before deciding how to vote. It is also recommended that you read the full Annual Report and Accounts 2022.

Voting ID

Task ID

Shareholder Reference Number

I/We being (a) registered holder(s) of ordinary shares of 5p ("Ordinary Shares") in the capital of the Company, hereby appoint the duly appointed Chair of the Meeting or (see note 1)

Proxy holder's name

Number of shares (see note 2)

This is one of multiple

instructions given

(Tick box if yes)

as my/our proxy to attend and vote for me/us and on my/our behalf at the Annual General Meeting of the Company to be held at the offices of Beazley plc, 22 Bishopsgate, London, EC2N 4BQ on 25 April 2023 at 2.30 pm and at any adjournment thereof. In the event of a poll being directed or demanded, I/we desire my/ our vote(s) to be cast as shown below on the Resolutions set out in the Notice of Annual General Meeting.

Please indicate with a tick in the appropriate spaces provided below how you wish your votes on the Resolutions to be cast. If you sign this Form of Proxy and return it without any specific direction as to how you wish your votes to be cast, the proxy may vote as he or she thinks fit or abstain from voting in respect of the Resolutions and also on any other business (including amendments to the Resolutions) which may properly come before the Meeting.

No.

Type of

Resolution

For

Against

Withheld

Resolution

1

Ordinary

To receive the accounts for the financial year ended 31 December 2022, together with the

Directors' report and Auditor's report thereon

2

Ordinary

To approve the Directors' Remuneration report for the financial year ended 31 December 2022

3

Ordinary

To approve the Directors' Remuneration policy to take effect from the date of this annual general

meeting

4

Ordinary

To approve the payment of an interim dividend of 13.5 pence per ordinary share

5

Ordinary

To re-elect Rajesh Agrawal as a Director of the Company

6

Ordinary

To re-elect Adrian Cox as a Director of the Company

7

Ordinary

To re-electPierre-Olivier Desaulle as a Director of the Company

8

Ordinary

To re-elect Nicola Hodson as a Director of the Company

9

Ordinary

To re-elect Sally Lake as a Director of the Company

10

Ordinary

To re-elect Christine LaSala as a Director of the Company

11

Ordinary

To re-elect John Reizenstein as a Director of the Company

12

Ordinary

To re-elect Robert Stuchbery as a Director of the Company

13

Ordinary

To elect Clive Bannister as a new Director of the Company

14

Ordinary

To elect Fiona Muldoon as a new Director of the Company

15

Ordinary

To elect Cecilia Reyes Leuzinger as a new Director of the Company

16

Ordinary

To re-appoint EY as Auditors of the Company

17

Ordinary

To authorise the Audit Committee to determine the Auditors' remuneration

18

Ordinary

To approve the UK Share Incentive Plan 2023

19

Ordinary

To approve the International Share Incentive Plan 2023

20

Ordinary

To approve the amendment to the Long Term Incentive Plan 2022

21

Ordinary

To authorise the Directors to allot shares

22

Special

To authorise the disapplication of pre-emption rights generally

23

Special

To authorise the disapplication of pre-emption rights for an acquisition or specified capital investment

24

Special

To authorise the Company to make market purchases of Ordinary Shares

25

Special

To allow the Company to hold general meetings (other than annual general meetings) on not less

than 14 clear days' notice

Signed this

day of

2023

Signature

NOTES

The following notes relate to the Form of Proxy for the Annual General Meeting to be held on 25 April 2023 at 2.30pm.

  1. You may appoint one or more proxies of your choice to attend, speak and vote in your place. The proxy need not be a member of the Company. If you require any proxy, other than the chair of the meeting, add the name of the proxy you wish to appoint. If more than one proxy is appointed to attend this meeting, each proxy must be appointed to exercise the rights attached to a different share or shares held by the shareholder. To appoint more than one proxy, you may photocopy this Form of Proxy or obtain (an) additional Form(s) of Proxy by contacting the Shareholders' Helpline on 0371 384 2658 (calls to this number are charged at the national rate plus network extras). If you are calling from outside of the UK, please ensure the country code is used (calls to this number will be charged depending on where the call is made from, at international rates).
  2. Please indicate in the box next to the proxy holder's name the number of shares in relation to which he or she is authorised to act as your proxy. Please also indicate by marking the box provided if the proxy instruction is one of multiple instructions being given. If the proxy is being appointed in relation to less than your full voting entitlement, please enter in the box next to the proxy holder's name the number of shares in relation to which he or she is authorised to act as your proxy. If left blank your proxy will be deemed to be authorised in respect of your full voting entitlement. All forms must be signed and should be returned together in the same envelope.
  3. In order to be valid, this Form of Proxy must be returned duly completed, signed and dated no later than 2.30pm on 21 April 2023 (or 48 hours preceding the date and time for any adjourned meeting) by post, by courier or by hand to the offices of the Company's registrars, Equiniti, Aspect House, Spencer Road, Lancing, West Sussex BN99 6DA, unless you are appointing your proxy or proxies electronically in which case please refer to note 5.
  4. Any alterations to this form should be initialled. Any power of attorney or any other such authority under which the Form of Proxy is signed (or certified copy of such authority) must be included with the Form of Proxy. In the case of a corporation, the Form of Proxy should be executed under the corporation's common seal and/or agent or officer authorised for such purpose.
  5. As an alternative to completing a hardcopy Form of Proxy, you can appoint a proxy or proxies electronically by visiting www.sharevote.co.uk. You will be asked to enter your unique Voting ID, Task ID and Shareholder Reference Number as printed on your Form of Proxy. Alternatively, if you have already registered with Equiniti's online portfolio service, Shareview, you can submit your Form of Proxy at www.shareview.com. Full instructions are given on both websites. The use by members of the electronic proxy appointment service will be governed by the terms and conditions of use which appear on the website. To be valid your proxy appointment(s) and instructions should reach Equiniti no later than 2.30pm on 21 April 2023.
  6. If you are a CREST member, and as an alternative to completing a hardcopy or electronic Form of Proxy as above, you may complete the Form of Proxy by utilising the CREST electronic proxy appointment service. To be valid, a proxy appointment or instruction made using the CREST service must be properly authenticated in accordance with Euroclear's specifications and must contain the information required for such instructions, as described in the CREST manual. The message must be transmitted so as to be received by the Company's Agent, Equiniti, (CREST participant ID RA 19) by 2.30 pm on 21 April 2023 (or 48 hours preceding the date and time for any adjourned meeting). For this purpose, the time of receipt will be taken to be the time (as determined by the timestamp applied to the message by the CREST Applications Host) from which the Company's agent is able to retrieve the message.
  7. Completing and returning the Form of Proxy, whether hardcopy, electronic, through CREST or Proxymity instruction, will not preclude you from attending and voting at the meeting.
  8. In the case of joint registered holders, the signature of any one of joint holders will be sufficient. The vote of the senior joint holder who tenders a vote, whether in person or by proxy, will be accepted to the exclusion of the votes of the other joint holders, and for this purpose seniority will be determined by the order in which the names stand in the register of members for the joint holding.
  9. When two or more valid proxy appointments are received in respect of the same share for use at the same meeting, the one which was last received shall be treated as replacing and revoking the others in their entirety as regards that share. If the Company is unable to determine the one which was last received, none of them shall be valid in respect of that share.
  10. The 'Vote Withheld' option is provided to enable you to abstain on any resolution. However, it should be noted that a 'Vote Withheld' is not a vote in law and will not be counted in the calculation of the proportion of votes 'For' and 'Against' a resolution but will be counted to establish if a quorum is present.
  11. If this Form of Proxy is returned without an indication as to how the proxy shall vote on any particular resolution, the proxy will exercise his/her discretion as to whether, and if so how, he/she votes.
  12. You may not use any electronic address provided in this Form of Proxy to communicate with the Company for any other purposes other than those expressly stated.
  13. Only you, as a member, have the right to appoint a proxy. However, Nominated Persons may have a right to be appointed or to have someone else appointed as a proxy for the meeting if there is an agreement between you and the Nominated Person appointed by you to that effect.

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