Exhibit 99.1


                                                        CERTIFIED MAIL
                                                        RETURN RECEIPT REQUESTED



August 12, 2002

Jonathan G. Katz, Secretary
Securities and Exchange Commission
450 Fifth Street, N.W.
Washington, DC 20549-0609

RE:  STATEMENT UNDER OATH OF PRINCIPAL EXECUTIVE OFFICER
     REGARDING FACTS AND CIRCUMSTANCES RELATING TO EXCHANGE ACT FILINGS

Dear Mr. Katz:

I, Jeffrey P. Black, state and attest that:

      (1) To the best of my knowledge, based upon a review of the covered
      reports of Teleflex Incorporated (the "Company"), and, except as corrected
      or supplemented in a subsequent covered report:

            -     no covered report contained an untrue statement of a material
                  fact as of the end of the period covered by such report (or in
                  the case of a report on Form 8-K or definitive proxy
                  materials, as of the date on which it was filed); and

            -     no covered report omitted to state a material fact necessary
                  to make the statements in the covered report, in light of the
                  circumstances under which they were made, not misleading as of
                  the end of the period covered by such report (or in the case
                  of a report on Form 8-K or definitive proxy materials, as of
                  the date on which it was filed).

      (2) I have reviewed the contents of this statement with the Company's
      audit committee.

Jonathan G. Katz, Secretary
August 12, 2002
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      (3) In this statement under oath, each of the following, if filed on or
      before the date of this statement, is a "covered report":

            -     Form 10-K for the Fiscal Year ended December 30, 2001 of
                  Teleflex Incorporated filed on March 27, 2002;

            -     Form 10-Q for the Quarterly Period ended March 31, 2002 of
                  Teleflex Incorporated filed May 15, 2002; and

            -     Form 10-Q for the Quarterly Period ended June 30, 2002 of
                  Teleflex Incorporated to be filed on August 12, 2002.



      /s/  JEFFREY P. BLACK
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           Jeffrey P. Black
           August 12, 2002




                                                    Subscribed and sworn
                                                    to before me this
                                                    12th day of August
                                                    2002.

                                                    /s/ Valerie S. Coppola
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                                                    Notary Public