Lieutenant-General Sir Lothian Nicholson KCB (19 January 1827 – 27 June 1893) was Governor of Gibraltar.

Educated at Mr Malleson's School in Hove and at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, Nicholson was commissioned into the Royal Corps of Engineers in 1846.

[1] Later that year he became Assistant Adjutant-General for the Royal Engineers in Ireland.

[1] In 1891 he became Governor of Gibraltar: he died in office in 1893[1] and is buried in North Front Cemetery there.

[3] His children included Major-General Sir Cecil Lothian Nicholson, who commanded a division in the First World War, and Admiral Sir Douglas Romilly Lothian Nicholson, who commanded several battle squadrons in the First World War.