The Reverend Doctor William Lambie Nelson (20 September 1808 – 13 June 1887)[1] was an Australian politician who was briefly a Member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly.

Nelson was of Scottish origin and arrived in Australia in 1853 after being invited by the Sydney Presbytery to take spiritual charge of the Presbyterians in the district of Ipswich.

However, Mr Chubb on behalf of one of the unsuccessful candidates, Pollett Cardew, protested against the election of the Reverend Nelson as he was a priest in holy orders and was therefore disqualified from being elected, but the Rev.

[5] His homestead Gabbinbar in Toowoomba was listed on the Queensland Heritage Register on 21 October 1992.

[1] This Wikipedia article incorporates text from "The Queensland heritage register" published by the State of Queensland under CC-BY 3.0 AU licence (accessed on 7 July 2014, archived on 8 October 2014).