Thomas Ernest Briggs (1816-1897) arrived per Java 1847 as a member of the 96th Regiment. He bought himself out of the army and later went to the East Indies as a military veterinary surgeon. He survived the Indian Mutiny 1857, returning to WA 1858. He was the licensee of the Trumpeters Inn in King William Street Perth (from 1854: Tuckfield). He bought 20 acres at Freshwater Bay (Cottesloe/Peppermint Grove) and opened the Albion Hotel there (Erickson). His son, another Thomas Briggs (1870-1935), was Mayor of Claremont.
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