Clarke and Meynell was a theatrical production company in Australia.
Clyde Harold van Straubenzee, (1869–1934), son of Lt-Colonel Frederick van Straubenzee, trained as a doctor, but abandoned medicine for the stage, as Clyde Meynell actor, and (later) theatrical manager.
Meynell and John Gunn (c. 1869–1909) founded Strand Comedy Company 1905, leased the Criterion Theatre, Sydney.
In 1909 they secured rights to The Arcadians, and formed a comic opera company in England to play it, hiring Charles Wenman as producer.
[3] Returned to England 1924 and resumed his medical practice, but was not successful.