Keith Rayner AO (born 22 November 1929) is a retired Australian Anglican bishop and a former Anglican Primate of Australia.

Education and ordained ministry

He was educated at the Church of England Grammar School, Brisbane, Queensland (now known as the Anglican Church Grammar School and popularly called "Churchie"). and the University of Queensland. He was ordained priest in 1953. His first post was as chaplain at St Francis' Theological College, Brisbane, followed by Queensland incumbencies in Sunnybank and Wynnum, during which time he completed his doctoral thesis on the history of Anglicanism within the Anglican Diocese of Brisbane.

In 1969 Rayner became the Bishop of Wangaratta, Victoria. In 1975 he was translated to the see of Adelaide, South Australia as its archbishop. During his time in Adelaide he was appointed to be an officer of the Order of Australia.

From 1990 to 1999, he was Archbishop of Melbourne and Primate of Australia. He was widely appreciated for his "masterly presidential style" and as a preacher. He supported the ordination of women to the priesthood.

Keith Rayner (June 20, 1943 – January 21, 2015) was a cognitive psychologist best known for pioneering modern eye-tracking methodology in reading and visual perception.

Career

Rayner obtained his B.S. and M.S. in Psychology at the University of Utah and subsequently obtained his Ph.D. from Cornell University with thesis titled The Perceptual Span and Peripheral Cues in Reading. In 1973, he was appointed Assistant Professor of Education, Psychology, and Visual Science at University of Rochester. From there, he moved to University of Massachusetts Amherst in 1981. In 2008, Rayner moved to University of California, San Diego, where he held the position of Atkinson Family Professor of Psychology. Rayner was the editor of the Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition from 1990 to 1995 and editor of Psychological Review from 2004 to 2010.

Honors and awards

Rayner has received numerous awards for his achievements. In particular, he received the University of Massachusetts Amherst Chancellor’s Lifetime Achievement Award in 2006, the Bartlett Lecture Lifetime Achievement Award from the Experimental Psychology Society in 2007, an Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Research Award in 2009, and a UC San Diego Chancellor’s Associates Research Award in 2010. Rayner was named Carnegie Centenary Professor for 2011 by the Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland.