Murphy Silverman-Podmore

Murphy Silverman-Podmore was the head curator at Chesterton Museum from 1962 to 1994. He died of a cardiac arrest at the age of 82 in the Museum while working late one evening after leaving his office and was just leaving.
== Biography ==
=== Life ===
Murphy Silverman-Podmore was born to his parents Karrick Podmore and Marie Silverman in 1911. He grew up with four younger sisters who were all frivolous; something Silverman-Podmore despised and the reason he rarely visited any of them. He married Anastasia Silverman-Podmore in 1939, the year before the 2nd World War began and he went off to war as a military captain. He came back in 1945 and his first son was born the following year. He had two more sons in consecutive years named Alexander and Frederick. He continued to work as a historian after the war and took up the job as Head Curator at Chesterton Museum in 1962 when he was just 41. He helped improve all of the museum’s galleries and had the all new natural history gallery named the Silverman-Podmore Gallery in dedication to him. He worked as the Head Curator right up until his death in January 1994. He was working late one evening on his new computer in his office and was just leaving at half past ten when he thought he saw one of the dinosaur skeletons in the front lobby move. In reality, this was just a trick of the light, but it gave Murphy such a shock that he suffered a cardiac arrest.
=== Death ===
Murphy woke up as a ghost to find the ghosts of a palaeontologist called John, the old night security guard who’d been called Chris, and a Victorian woman named Anne stood over him. These ghosts were very pleased to see him up until he got very annoyed and started barking at them about trespassing. He only realised then, that he was dead and began to freak out.
In the first episode, Murphy tells Chris that he “hates those pesky children climbing all over the exhibits” and then adds “it’s not a playground, you know!” Showing that he dislikes people touching the exhibits and still feels an obligation to make sure nobody damages anything.
== Appearance ==
Murphy is elderly, with fluffy white hair on the back and sides of his head and glasses perched high on his nose. He wears a magenta bow tie, a tweed suit, and bright red braces holding his trousers up. He walks with a silver and pine-wood cane that has a silver handle in the shape of a T-Rex’s skull.
== Personality ==
Murphy tends to be quite touchy about things, and sometimes a little old fashioned or annoying. However, he can also be really compassionate and kind when he wants to be, and is always looking to help others when in need. Murphy may be a little bit of a pain at times, but he keeps all the other ghosts together and is a clever, inquisitive man who knows all about everything in the Museum.
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