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Jimmy Knapp
James Knapp (29 September 1940 - 13 August 2001) was a prominent British trades unionist.〔(Obituary: Jimmy Knapp ), ''The Guardian'', 14 August 2001〕 He was successively General Secretary of the National Union of Railwaymen (NUR) from 1983, and then of the merged National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers (RMT) from 1990 to his death in 2001. He served on the executive board of the International Transport Workers' Federation from 1983 to 2001, the General Council of the Trades Union Congress from 1983 to 2001, and was President of the Trades Union Congress in 1994.
==Early and private life==
Knapp was born into a railway family in Hurlford, Ayrshire. He was educated at Hurlford primary school and Kilmarnock Academy. He learned his politics at a Socialist Sunday school.
He was distinguished by his broad Scottish accent, and his height, standing 6'4" tall. He married Sylvia Florence Yeomans in 1965. They had a daughter. After they were divorced in 1990, he married his second wife Eva Leigh, a German trades union official that he had met through his association with the International Transport Workers Federation.〔(Obituary ), ''Herald Scotland'', 14 August 2001〕 He supported Kilmarnock FC and Crystal Palace FC.
He lived in West Wickham, and died of cancer in Bromley, Greater London, aged 60. He was survived by his second wife Eva, his first wife Sylvia and their daughter Fiona.〔 He was the last person in Britain, to have a railway funeral in honour of the work he had done and was carried from London to Kilmarnock for burial in August 2001.
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