Description:1892 saw the appointment of a Royal Commission to examine the question of land reform in the Highlands – one of many in the 1880s and beyond – this one specifically asked to examine the vexed question of deer forests in the Highlands and whether local crofters could benefit from having land granted too them out of the lucrative shooting lets that estates such as the Sutherland estate had created. McIver was unimpressed by the work of this Commission, which he regarded as a radical tool and as simply raising the expectations of the local crofters and encouraging them to more protest and violence.
These pages have been researched and written by Dr. Annie Tindley, Lecturer in History at Glasgow Caledonian University.