Carmel Patricia Naughton is an Irish philanthropist. Naughton attended St. Louis Secondary School,

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, and is a graduate of

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. She married businessman and GlenDimplex founder Martin Naughton. Naughton and her husband have three children, including the former Undergraduate Awards board member, Rachael Naughton. She lives at Stackallan House,

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. Through the Naughton Foundation, Naughton has funded

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scholarships for Irish

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students, having been told in her childhood by a

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that girls were "stupid", and "couldn't do maths". She has sponsored the

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. With her husband Naughton has been a benefactor to the

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and Queen's Universitys

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. From 1996 to 2002, Naughton served as Chairman of the

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's board of governors. In 2007, she was elected as a

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of the

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. In the 2010s, she accepted a ministerial appointment to the board of

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, Dublin. She was among the inaugural

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s of the Edmund Rice Schools Trust when it took control of Irish former Christian Brothers' Schools in 2008. In 2016, Naughton and her husband Martin were named philanthropists of the year by the Community Foundation for Ireland. In 2004 Naughton received an

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doctorate from the

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awarded her a medal for services to the arts in Northern Ireland. In 2015 she was a recipient of the

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(RHA) Gold Medal, and she is an honorary member of the RHA. In 2019, she received an honorary doctorate from

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. She has been named Mary I College alumnus of the year.

References

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