The Lodge was consecrated by the RW PGM Bro Col. Le Gendre Nicholas Starkie on the 18th October 1895, in the Town Hall, Bury. The first WM was Bro T. Mellor. The Earl of Lathom Lodge was named after the Rt Hon. Earl of Lathom, the Prov. Grand Master of England. Following the ceremony a banquet was held at the Royal Hotel on Silver Street in Bury.
The first regular meeting was held at the Royal Hotel on the 6th November 1895 but it wasn't until 1963 when the Lodge started meeting at the new Masonic Hall.
There is evidence that the Earl of Lathom Lodge is the daughter Lodge of Egerton Lodge No.1392.
The Earl of Lathom's daughter Lodge, Bury Lodge No.5119, was later amalgamated with the Lodge of Relief No.42 to become the Bury Lodge of Relief No.42 in 2012.