Benham, Hugo

Benham, Hugo a Scottish prelate, went to Rome, and was consecrated bishop to the see of Aberdeen in 1267. He consented to a charter of foundation by Alexander Cumin, earl of Buchan, for building a hospital at Turriff, a village in the shire of Aberdeen, in 1272. He died at Loch-Goul in 1279. See Keith, Scottish Bishops, p. 108.