| Administrative History | The remit of the Royal Commission (Highlands and Islands, 1892) was; "to inquire whether any, and if any, what land in the counties of Argyll, Inverness, Ross and Cromarty, Sutherland, Caithness, and Orkney and Shetland, now occupied for the purposes of a deer forest, grouse moor, or other supporting purposes, or for grazing, not in the occupation of crofters ... is capable of being cultivated to profit or otherwise advantageously occupied by crofters ...". Its chairman was David Brand, Sheriff of Ayr, Chairman of the Crofters' Commission. These lands were defined on Ordnance Survey maps, which were issued in 1895.
John Thomson (1777-c.1840) was an Edinburgh based cartographer and publisher, who produced a series of maps and atlases in the early 19th century. |