Arthur Poe is a prominent recurring character in A Series of Unfortunate Events. He was a financial banker at Mulctuary Money Management who was later promoted to Vice President in charge of coins, and later Vice President in Charge of Orphan Affairs over the course of the series, leaving him mostly physically and mentally out of reach to the Baudelaire orphans whenever they needed him the most. He was placed in charge of managing the Baudelaire fortune, and later on, the Quagmire Fortune.