Major-General Sir Cecil Lothian Nicholson KCB CMG (1 November 1865 – 3 March 1933) was a British Army officer.

Born in Kensington,[2] London, the son of Sir Lothian Nicholson, a former governor of Gibraltar, and Mary Romilly, Nicholson was commissioned as a subaltern, with the rank of second lieutenant, into the Princess of Wales's Own Yorkshire Regiment on 29 August 1885.

[3] In May 1891 he was appointed as an aide-de-camp to his father, now a full general,[4] and was promoted to lieutenant in February 1893.

[9] He served on the Western Front from November 1914 and commanded his battalion at the Battle of Neuve Chapelle in March 1915 where he was wounded.

[10] Two months after being promoted to the temporary rank of brigadier general, in June 1915, he went on to succeed Major General Edward Ingouville-Williams in command of the 16th Infantry Brigade,[11] and led the brigade at Hooge in August.