Otho William Nicholson (30 November 1891 – 29 June 1978) was a British politician.

[1] Nicholson was first elected to Parliament in a by-election on 19 March 1924 in the London constituency of Westminster Abbey, where the previous MP John Nicholson had died the month before.

In the by-election he beat Winston Churchill, who stood for under the "Constitutionalist" banner, by only 43 votes.

He took the post of Steward of the Manor of Northstead on 4 July 1932, a way of resigning from the Commons.

On 2 March 1948, Nicholson was on a Sabena Airlines DC3 airplane when it crashed on landing at London Heathrow Airport.