of Inquiry into the Condition of Crofters and Cottars in the Highlands and Islands" under Lord Napier ) to identify remedies. Napier's report in 1884 recommended security of tenure for crofters paying rents of over £6 a year (of whom there were few) and voluntary emigration for the rest of the population. Napier's recommendations were at odds with the measures adopted in Ireland to resolve the Irish 'land question' and the subsequent Crofters' Holdings (Scotland) Act, 1886 was more influenced by the Irish precedents than by the Napier Commission report. In the General Election of 1885, 5 Highland seats had elected 'Independent Liberal' MPs endorsed by the Highland Land League ("the Crofters' Party") and thereafter political considerations heavily influenced the Liberal approach to the problems of the crofting region. See also Agriculture in Scotland Great Famine (Ireland) European Potato Famine Notes References Further reading Krisztina Fenyo, Contempt, Sympathy and Romance: Lowland Perceptions of the Highlands and the Clearances During the Famine Years, 1845–1855. (2000) East Lothian: Tuckwell Press Redcliffe N. Salaman & J. G. Hawkes, The History and Social Influence of the Potato. (1985) New York Cambridge University Press T.M. Devine, The Great Highland Famine: Hunger, Emigration and the Scottish Highlands in the Nineteenth Century. (1988) Edinburgh: Birlinn Andrew G. Newby, 'Emigration and Clearance from the Island of Barra, c.1770-1858'. Transactions of the Gaelic Society of Inverness, 61 (2003), 116-48. Famines in Europe 1840s in Scotland 1850s in Scotland 1846 in Scotland 1847 in Scotland History of the potato Crofting History of the Scottish Highlands History of agriculture in Scotland Disasters in Scotland 19th-century famines