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From 1904 to 1942 DeLisser was editor of the Daily Gleaner, Jamaica's leading newspaper; for twenty-two years, he was on the Board of Governors of the Institute of Jamaica established "for the Encouragement of Literature, Science, and Art," and most of the time he sat as chairman of the Board; he also served for twenty-seven years as secretary of the Jamaica Imperial Association which, along the broad principles of the defunct Imperial Federation League, sought at least to preserve the British Empire if not to federate it. In addition he gave what was acknowledged as outstanding service to Jamaica's sugar and banana industries. Besides, he wrote ten novels and three works of travel and history, contributing substantially through his manifold activities to the development of Jamaican social, political, and economic life.