 Montgomery was soon publishing a brisk flow of papers on modal logic. Many were co-authored with Richard Routley, who graduated from the Victoria University of Wellington—known to all as ‘Vic’—not long before Montgomery enrolled in Bull’s course. ‘I grew up in the shadow of Prior’, Routley said: ‘He was, I suppose, the dominant figure in New Zealand philosophy in the late 1950s’. There were other important philosophers working there, Routley conceded, ‘but they did not have the panache of Prior, or the larger-than-life stature, or the doctrine’ (Sylvan 1996: 126). Routley moved to Australia and went on to pioneer relevant and dialethic logics, as well as environmental philosophy, changing his name to Sylvan in the 1980s (he loved trees, especially the New Zealand kauri). Montgomery—with Prior’s forceful backing—was appointed associate professor at Auckland University in 1969, and then to Auckland’s chair of philosophy in 1970.