He did not manage to build his personal following; in historiography he is considered a unique case of a right-wing revolutionary who strove to launch a Christian, violent, urban, working class, anti-establishment movement.

His paternal family originated from Orense; his grandfather, Victorio Iglesias Fernández, served as oficial primero of Tesorería de Hacienda in the city.

[3] The older brother, Antonio Iglesias Pardo (1844–1902),[4] opted for a civilian career; in the 1870s he served in Cáceres, but in 1885 he left Extremadura[5] and returned to his native Orense.

[8] At unspecified time though probably prior to the mid-1870s Antonio Iglesias married María Asunción García Legond, a native of Santiago and member to another family related to military medical services.

[11] At an unspecified time yet most likely in the late 1890s he enrolled at the faculty of law at Universidad de Santiago, where his career was punctuated by a brief period of military service.

[12] As a university student he performed brilliantly; Iglesias obtained governmental prize in course of the curriculum, was rewarded for his study on legal rights of married woman and achieved premio extraordinario when he graduated in 1902.

[13] Upon passing entry exams in early 1903 Iglesias was admitted to Ministerio de Hacienda[14] and moved to Madrid,[15] soon to be placed as the ministry delegate in Barcelona.

Iglesias spoke vehemently against this "hermandad vulgo pisto rabioso pactada"; his highly emotional harangues earned him attention of the Liberal and Republican press, as already in early 1906 he featured as a negative point of reference.

[39] The two seemed to have developed sort of friendship yet the prosecutor had his way and Rull was eventually executed;[40] during and after the affair Iglesias was widely quoted speaking on terrorism and related issues.

[42] Once the city was rocked by riots known as Semana Trágica Iglesias voiced against "doctrinas positivistas" and secular teaching, identified as primary roots of urban unrest.

As a joint CdDS and Carlist representative[46] supported by other right-wing groupings[47] he ran in the Cortes elections from Gerona in 1910; riding the wave of anti-Left backlash which followed The Tragic Week he somewhat unexpectedly emerged triumphant.

[54] Confronting both radical lerrouxistas and bourgeoisie La Lliga, Iglesias started to champion what looked like a nascent Christian, urban, aggressive, proletarian protest crusade.

[68] However, the most deadly turned out to be a 1911 urban battle in Sant Feliu de Llobregat; following his address at a Carlist rally hundreds of requetés and lerrouxistas engaged in a melee which left 6 people killed,[69] the incident investigated later in the parliament.

[77] In the 1914 electoral campaign Iglesias stood as a Carlist candidate in Gerona[78] and though proportionally he was more successful than 4 years earlier, ultimately he failed to renew his deputy ticket.

[93] Iglesias kept lambasting a policy which according to him melted Carlism in a broad Catalanism;[94] upon the 1917 emergence of Parliamentary Assembly[95] he strongly voiced against the initiative[96] as giving in to the likes of Lerroux and Cambó.

While the party officially supported neutrality most Catalan Carlists harbored francophone feelings; Iglesias emerged as leader of the local pro-German faction, noted for his cries of viva Alemania[100] and even for declaration that he was prepared to shed blood if the time comes.

[114] He contributed to local efforts of forging a new party within a grand right-wing coalition and specified his program as "religión, unidad de la Patria española, Orden social y Monarquía tradicional y, por tanto, regionalista";[115] indeed he supported the autonomous statute drafted by Mancomunitat.

[116] During a grand assembly of Catalan Mellistas in Badalona of 1920 he hoped they would serve as agglutinatory factor for all Catholic forces,[117] yet such a union was slow to materialize: in 1921 he was denied the Maurista support during one more bid for the senate.

Already in late 1923 he took part in homage feasts celebrating Primo as savior of the fatherland;[125] explicitly exalting "golpe de estado" he offered his services to the military directorio.

He later claimed that during personal meetings with the dictator he had tried to impose upon Primo his own social concerns and that he had repeatedly suggested that the regime should lower the cost of life for the middle- and working class.

[137] At that time he emerged as expert on canon law and author of a few related works,[138] which probably earned him Cruz de Oro of Pro Ecclesia et Pontifice order, awarded by the pope.

[143] In June 1931 he was rumored to run on a joint right-wing ticket for the Cortes[144] and indeed later that year he was once noted as speaking at a Traditionalism-flavored rally,[145] yet unlike many former Mellistas, Iglesias has not been reported as engaged in a re-united Carlist organization, Comunión Tradicionalista.