Ezequiel Gutiérrez Iglesias

He was the son of Francisco de Paula Gutiérrez y La Peña-Monje and Ramona Iglesias Llorente.

Gutiérrez Iglesias pursued secondary studies in Guatemala and graduated with a bachelor's degree in law (Licenciado en Leyes) from the University of St. Thomas (Universidad de Santo Tomás), where he was also a professor of grammar and philosophy.

He held numerous public offices, especially in the educational, diplomatic, and judiciary fields: a teacher at the Cartago Liceo de Niñas (Girls' School), functionary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and associated portfolios (1862–1864), Attaché (1864–1866) and Chargé d'affaires (1866–1869) for Costa Rica in the United States of America, Secretary of the Costa Rican Legation in Europe (1868–1869), Inspector General of Schools (1869–1870), Representative for Cartago in the National Constitutional Convention (1870), and Counselor for the Costa Rican Legation in Peru and Chile (1870–1871).

In 1886, he was a member of the San José Charities Board and in 1893 Minister Plenipotentiary of Costa Rica in Nicaragua and Honduras.

[2] From 1913 to 1918, he was the alternate magistrate for Costa Rica on the Central American Court of Justice and from 1914 to 1916 he directed the National Archives.