IGLESIAS POSSE, PABLO (1850-1925), Spanish poli tician was born at El Ferrol on Oct. 15, 185o. On the death of his father he was placed in a foundling asylum where after repeated attempts at escape he remained for some years. In 1871 he became secretary of the International Proletarian Federa tion and in 1872 founded the Typographical Societies of which he became president in 1885. He helped form the first Spanish Socialist group in 1879 and was elected to the House of Deputies in 1910. In 1923, when Primo de Rivera overthrew the con stitution and closed the doors of the Cortes, he was chief of the Parliamentary Socialist Party. He became editor of El Socialista, the organ of the Spanish labour movement in 1886. For activi ties on behalf of the workers he served eight terms of imprison ment. He died in Madrid on Dec. 8, 1925.
See Melia, Pablo Iglesias Posse. Rasgos de su vida intima (1926) .