Arthur Holmwood is one of the main protagonists of the 1897 Gothic novel Dracula by Bram Stoker. He is the Lord of Godalming, the ex-fiance of Lucy Westenra and one of the vampire hunters recruited by Abraham Van Helsing
In the Novel[]
Holmwood is the only son of Lord Godalming who wins the great and engagement of Lucy Westenra after she was proposed to on the same day by Arthur's best friends, Quincey Morris and Doctor John Seward. Holmwood is the one who drives a wooden stake into Lucy after she becomes a vampire and helps hunt Count Dracula.
Arthur's father passes away midway through the novel and he inherits the family fortune. Through his wealth, Arthur funds his friends' Operation of vanquishing Dracula. He raided Dracula's many lairs throughout London as well as aiding in the investigation of locating the Count's many purchased estates. During the confrontation with Dracula, Quincey is killed but not before destroying the vampire one and for all.
Epilogue[]
It is mentioned in the note at the end of the novel, written seven years after Dracula's death, that Holmwood is now married happily to an Unnamed woman.