Carmel Naughton

Carmel Patricia Naughton is an Irish philanthropist.^[1]

Carmel Naughton D.Litt., D.Phil., MRIA, HRHA
Education	St. Louis Secondary School, Monaghan
Occupation	Philanthropist
Known for	Patronage of the arts, education and camogie
Spouse	Martin Naughton
Children	3

Naughton attended St. Louis Secondary School, Monaghan,^[2] and is a graduate of Mary Immaculate College.^[3][4] She married businessman and GlenDimplex founder Martin Naughton.^[5][6][7] Naughton and her husband have three children, including the former Undergraduate Awards board member, Rachael Naughton.^[8][7] She lives at Stackallan House, County Meath.^{[9][10][11][12]}

Through the Naughton Foundation, Naughton has funded STEM scholarships for Irish leaving certificate students,^[13][14] having been told in her childhood by a nun that girls were "stupid", and "couldn't do maths".^[15] She has sponsored the Camogie Association.^[15][16][17] With her husband Naughton has been a benefactor to the Museum of Literature Ireland and Queen's University's Naughton Gallery.^[18][19][20]

From 1996 to 2002, Naughton served as Chairman of the National Gallery of Ireland's board of governors.^[21] In 2007, she was elected as a member of the Royal Irish Academy.^[21][1][22] In the 2010s, she accepted a ministerial appointment to the board of St. James's Hospital, Dublin.^[23] She was among the inaugural trustees of the Edmund Rice Schools Trust when it took control of Irish former Christian Brothers' Schools in 2008.^[24] In 2016, Naughton and her husband Martin were named philanthropists of the year by the Community Foundation for Ireland.^[25]

In 2004 Naughton received an honorary doctorate from the University of Notre Dame.^[1][26] Charles, Prince of Wales awarded her a medal for services to the arts in Northern Ireland.^[22] In 2015 she was a recipient of the Royal Hibernian Academy (RHA) Gold Medal,^[27][28] and she is an honorary member of the RHA.^[22] In 2019, she received an honorary doctorate from Trinity College Dublin.^[29][30][22] She has been named Mary I College alumnus of the year.^[4]