Nelson Wheatcroft (February 15, 1852 – March 3, 1897) was an English-born actor and drama teacher.

[1] He ran a famous drama school at the Charles Frohman Empire Theatre in the late Victorian era, and was a member of The Lambs Club.

He met Adeline Stanhope, a married woman whose husband was Thomas Amory Sullivan.

While Sullivan went to the United States, Nelson and Adeline began a relationship.

With his death in 1897, Nelson Wheatcroft had not divorced his first wife, Jane, before marrying Adeline, and thus was called a bigamist.