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DPR:  10/29/97                                                   EXHIBIT 10(f)


                             TELEFLEX INCORPORATED
                           DEFERRED COMPENSATION PLAN


         This is the TELEFLEX INCORPORATED DEFERRED COMPENSATION PLAN, as 
amended and restated effective November 3, 1997 (the "Plan"), which Teleflex
Incorporated, a Delaware corporation (the "Corporation"), maintains to provide
its directors with a deferred compensation arrangement and that the Corporation
and its participating affiliates maintain to provide certain of their employees
with such an arrangement.

         1.      Effective Date.  The Plan was effective January 1, 1995.  
This amendment and restatement is effective November 3, 1997.  "Fiscal Year"
shall mean each twelve-consecutive month period beginning on January 1 and
ending the following December 31 during which the Plan is in effect.

         2.      Eligibility.  Any director of the Corporation, and any 
employee of the Corporation or a participating affiliate who is designated
by the Corporation as a Key (Management) Employee, shall be eligible to
participate herein (hereinafter referred to as the "Participant").

         3.      Annual Retainer Deferrals.  Prior to the beginning of the 
1998 Fiscal Year and thereafter prior to the beginning of any subsequent
Fiscal Year, a Participant who is a director entitled to receive an annual
retainer from the Corporation for service on the Corporation's Board of
Directors may elect to defer receipt of any whole percent of his retainer
payable during that Fiscal Year.

         4.      Salary and Bonus Deferrals.  Prior to the beginning of any 
Fiscal Year, a Participant who is an employee may elect to defer receipt of any
whole percent (2% minimum to 50% maximum) of his base salary, commissions or
other regularly paid cash compensation payable during that Fiscal Year.  In
addition, such a Participant may elect to defer receipt of any whole percentage
(10% minimum to 75% maximum) of his annual discretionary bonus.

         5.      Restricted Stock Deferrals.  Prior to the beginning of the 
1998 Fiscal Year and thereafter prior to the beginning of any other Fiscal Year
in which a restricted stock award is scheduled to be made by the Corporation's
Board of Directors under the Corporation's Restricted Stock Plan, a Participant
who is potentially eligible to receive such an award in such year may elect to
defer receipt of any whole number of shares (10% minimum to 10% maximum) of the
award under this Plan.

                 a.      Vesting.  Any rule under the Restricted Stock
         Plan relating to risk of forfeiture of shares awarded under that plan
         shall continue to apply to any portion of an award the receipt of
         which is deferred under this Plan.
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                 b.      Dividends and Stock Splits.  Cash dividends paid with 
         respect to shares deferred under the Plan and any cash paid in lieu of
         fractional shares shall be deferred in the same manner as salary and
         bonus deferrals under Paragraph 4.  Stock dividends and stock splits
         paid with respect to deferred shares shall also be deferred and held
         and paid under the Plan, in the same manner as deferred shares.

         6.      Deferred Benefits.  Any amounts deferred by a Participant
pursuant to Paragraph 3 or Paragraph 4, and cash dividends and cash payable in
lieu of a fractional share that are deferred pursuant to Paragraph 5b, together
with the accrued interest thereon from the investment of such amounts in
accordance with Paragraph 7 hereof, and any restricted stock award deferred by
a Participant pursuant to Paragraph 5, as adjusted for stock dividends and
splits, shall constitute the deferred benefits ("Deferred Benefits") payable
hereunder.  Deferred Benefits shall be credited to an account ("Account")
established for each Participant by the Committee.

         7.      Investments.

         The cash portion of each Participant's Account will be credited with
interest quarterly in arrears based upon the yield on five year U.S. Treasury
Bonds as published in the Wall Street Journal on the last business day of the
preceding November.

         8.      Funding.  In order to meet its contingent deferred obligation
hereunder, the Corporation and any participating affiliate may, but shall not
be required to, set aside or earmark an amount necessary to provide the
Deferred Benefits described in Paragraph 6 hereof.  In any event, the
obligations of the Corporation and any participating affiliate hereunder shall
constitute a general, unsecured obligation, payable solely out of their
respective general assets, and no Participant shall have any right to specific
assets.  This shall be considered an "unfunded" arrangement for purposes of the
Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended ("ERISA").

         9.      Distributions.

                 a.      Deferred Benefits shall be distributed or commence to
         be distributed to a Participant within 30 days after his election to
         have benefits commence (not less than five years hence) or at death,
         disability, retirement or termination of employment for any reason. 
         The Corporation may permit a Participant to elect an earlier
         distribution; provided, however, that early distributions will only be
         permitted under the circumstances set forth in Treas. Reg. section
         1.457-2(h)(4) and (5), as determined by the Committee.  Any
         installments of Deferred Benefits which are unpaid at a Participant's
         death shall be paid to the beneficiary designated by the Participant
         or, in the absence of an effective beneficiary designation, to his
         estate.





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                 b.      Distribution elections shall be made at the time of
         deferral. Distribution options include: a lump sum or five or ten
         approximately equal annual installments.

         10.     Administration of the Plan. The Corporation shall appoint a 
Plan Administrative Committee ("Committee"), which shall have full power and
authority to interpret, construe and administer the Plan and the Committee's
interpretation and construction hereof, and actions hereunder, or the amount or
recipient of the payment to be made herefrom, shall be binding and conclusive on
all persons for all purposes. In this connection, the Committee may delegate to
any individual, the duty to act for the Committee hereunder. No director,
officer or employee of the Corporation shall be liable to any person for any
action taken or omitted in connection with the interpretation and administration
of the Plan unless attributable to his own willful misconduct or lack of good
faith.

         11.     Amendments.

                 a.      All amendments to the Plan may be accomplished by 
         execution of a written document by an executive officer of the
         Corporation.

                 b.      The Corporation, through the Committee, reserves the
         right to amend the Plan at any time, in any manner whatsoever, after
         delivery of written notification to all Participants of its intention 
         and the effective date thereof; provided, however, that no amendment 
         shall reduce any Deferred Benefits which a Participant had credited to 
         his Account before the later of the date of the Committee's action or 
         the effective date of the amendment, as determined in accordance with 
         the provisions of the Plan in effect immediately before such date.

         12.     Change of Control. In the event that any person, entity or 
group of persons, within the meaning of section 13(d) or section 14(d) of the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934 ("Act"), or any comparable successor provisions
shall acquire beneficial ownership (within the meaning of Rule 13d-3 promulgated
under the Act) of 20 percent or more of either the outstanding shares of common
stock or the combined voting power of the Corporation's then outstanding voting
securities entitled to vote generally, or the approval by the stockholders of
the Corporation of a reorganization, merger, or consolidation, in each case,
with respect to which persons who were stockholders of the Corporation
immediately prior to such reorganization, merger or consolidation do not,
immediately thereafter, own more than 50 percent of the combined voting power
entitled to vote generally in the election of directors of the reorganized,
merged or consolidated Corporation's then outstanding securities, or a
liquidation or dissolution of the Corporation's then outstanding securities, or
in the event of liquidation or dissolution of the Corporation or of the sale of
all or substantially all of the Corporation's assets, then the Corporation and
each participating affiliate shall contribute to a Grantor Trust meeting the
requirements of section 671 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended,
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thereafter, an amount equal to the entire Account balance standing to the credit
of each Participant who was a director of or employed, or formerly employed, by
them or any of them.

         13.     Termination of the Plan. Continuance of the Plan is completely
voluntary, and is not assumed as a contractual obligation of the Corporation or
any participating affiliate. The Corporation and each participating affiliate,
having adopted the Plan, shall each have the right, at any time, to discontinue
prospectively the Plan as to Participants employed or formerly employed by each,
or, in the case of the Corporation, serving as a director, after delivery of
written notification to the affected Participants of such an intention and the
effective date thereof; provided, however, that any such termination shall not
adversely affect a Participant's Deferred Benefits accrued to the date of such
termination.

         14.     Miscellaneous.

                 a.      Title to and beneficial ownership of any assets,
         whether cash or investments, which the Corporation or any participating
         affiliate may set aside or earmark to meet their respective deferred 
         obligations hereunder, shall at all times remain in the Corporation 
         or affiliate and no Participant or beneficiary shall under any
         circumstances acquire any property interest in any specific assets of 
         the Corporation or affiliate; provided, however, that legal title to 
         any assets set aside in trust shall be in the trustee of the trust. 
         Nothing contained in the Plan and no action taken pursuant to the 
         provisions of the Plan shall create or be construed to create a 
         fiduciary relationship between the Corporation or affiliate and any 
         Participant or any other person. Any funds which may be invested under 
         the provisions of the Plan shall continue for all purposes to be a part
         of the general funds of the Corporation or an affiliate and no person
         other than the Corporation or affiliate shall by virtue of the 
         provisions of the Plan have any interest in such funds. To the extent 
         that any person acquires a right to receive payments from the
         Corporation or an affiliate under the Plan, such right shall be no 
         greater than the right of any unsecured general creditor of the 
         Corporation or affiliate.

                 b.      The right of the Participant or any other person to
         the payment of deferred compensation or other benefits hereunder
         shall not be assigned, transferred, pledged or encumbered except by
         will or by the laws of descent and distribution.

                 c.      If the Committee shall find that any person to whom
         any payment is payable under the Plan is unable to care for his
         affairs because of illness or accident, or is a minor, any payment
         due (unless a prior claim therefor shall have been made by a duly
         appointed guardian, committee or other legal representative) may be
         paid to the spouse, a child, a parent, or a brother or sister, or to
         any person deemed by the Committee to have incurred expense for such
         person otherwise entitled to payment, in such manner and proportions
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         may determine.  Any such payment shall be a complete discharge of the 
         liabilities of the Corporation and its affiliates under the Plan.

                 d.      Nothing contained herein shall be construed as
         conferring upon a Participant the right to continue in the employ of 
         the Corporation or an affiliate in any capacity.

                 e.      The Plan shall be binding upon and inure to the benefit
         of the Corporation and participating affiliates, and their successors 
         and assigns, and the Participants and their heirs, executors, 
         administrators and legal representatives.

         15.     The Plan shall be construed in accordance with, and governed 
by, the law of the State of Delaware except to the extent that such law is
superseded by ERISA.

         IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Corporation has caused this amendment and
restatement of the Plan to be executed and attested by its duly authorized
officers and has caused its seal to be affixed as of the date first above
written.

(CORPORATE SEAL)                                 TELEFLEX INCORPORATED

Attest:

/s/ HERBERT K. ZEARFOSS                          By:   /s/ THOMAS M. BYRNE
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    HERBERT K. ZEARFOSS                                    THOMAS M. BYRNE
    ASSISTANT SECRETARY

                                                 Date: 12/14/97
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