A collection of the occupations or job descriptions of the people living in London in the 1890's. Most of the descriptions are fairly self explanatory, I'll elaborate on the ones that aren't in due course.
| Maccaroni Loper | |
| Machine Boy | A boy who operated a machine. |
| Machine Breaker | English labourers who in the early 19th century revolted and broke threshing machines, spinning machines, and other forms of mechanisation. |
| Machine Girl | A girl who operated a machine. |
| Machine Ruler or Machiner | A machine operator |
| Machinist | A machine operator |
| Macon | A mason. |
| Macun | A mason. |
| Maderer | A person who gathered and sold garlic. |
| Maid | A female domestic servant. They included Scullery, Kitchen, House, General, Parlour, Nurse, Laundry, Lady's etc. |
| Mail Guard | An armed guard employed to protect the mail coach service. |
| Maise Maker | A person who made measures for weighing herring catch. |
| Maker-Up | A person who prepared or 'made up' material to customers clothing requirements, or chemist or druggist, or an agent for paraffin. |
| Malemaker | A maker of "Males" or travelling bags. A Royal Mail term for the bags in which the letters were carried. |
| Malender | A farmer |
| Maler | See Malemaker. |
| Malster or Maltster | A brewer, maker or seller of malt beverages; beer and ale. |
| Manager | in charge of; any industry |
| Manageress | in charge of; any industry. |
| Manageress do | A woman in charge of; any industry. |
| Manchester Man | A wholesale travelling salsman trading between factory and shops with goods on packhorses. |
| Manciple | A steward |
| Mangle Keeper | woman who offered use of a mangle for a fee |
| Mangle Worker or Mangler | Someone who works a mangle |
| Mango | A slave dealer. |
| Mantle Cutter | Someone who cut mantles for gas lamps. |
| Mantle Finisher | Someone who finished mantles for gas lamps. |
| Mantle Forewoman | A highly skilled dressmaker. |
| Mantle Machinist | Someone who machined mantles for gas lamps. |
| Mantle Maker | Someone who made mantles for gas lamps. |
| Mantle Trimming Maker | Someone who made the trimming for gas mantles |
| Mantua Maker | A Dressmaker. Mantua is a woman's loose gown. |
| Manufacturer, Mechanic | |
| Manufacturing chemist, labourer | |
| Marble Mason | |
| Marble Polisher, Mason | |
| Marbler | one who stained paper or other material, veined to imitate marble |
| Marescallus | A marshall. |
| Marine Store Dealer | A person who buys and sells used cordage, bunting, rags, timber, metal, etc, sorts waste, repairs and mends sacks. |
| Mariner | A sailor, or seaman. |
| Mark Cutter | |
| Market Carrier | A porter. |
| Market Labourer | A labourer in the market. |
| Market Porter | A porter |
| Market Regulator | Regulates trade in the market. |
| Market Salesman | Sells item in a market. |
| Market Warehouseman | A labourer. |
| Marshall | A horse doctor or shoesmith. Alternative definition, a horse servant or groom. |
| Marshman | Someone employed by landowners to look after marshlands and tend the animals put to graze there for the season. |
| Mashmaker | Someone who makes the mash-vats or mashels used for mixing malt. |
| Marson | A mason. |
| Mason | A stone dresser or cutter. |
| Mason, or Paviour | lays paving stones |
| Master | The holder of one of three grades of skill recognised by the Guild of Crafts. A skilled workman or one in business on his own. |
| Master Baker | A highly skilled baker. |
| Master Carman | A cab driver who works for himself or employs others to drive. |
| Master Lumper | A contractor of labourers at cheap rate of pay. |
| Master Mariner | The Captain of a sea going vessel. |
| Master Tailor | A highly skilled tailor |
| Match Box Maker | Someone who makes matchboxes. |
| Match Maker | Someone who makes matches. |
| Match Seller, Coster | Someone who sells matches. |
| Matchbox Maker | Someone who makes matchboxes. |
| Matchet or Machete Forger | A knifemaker, or machetemaker; a heavy axe-like knife used as a chopping tool. |
| Matchgirl | Sold matches on the street (Six for a fip) |
| Mather | See Mawer. |
| Matron - Institute | Head nurse in charge of a ward in an institution. |
| Mawer | A mower. |
| Mayer | A physician. |
| Mealman | dealer in meal or flour |
| Meat Porter | A person who carried meat from place to place in a meat market. |
| Mechanic | A manual labourer, working in a trade, or the operator of a machine, or a person who uses machinery to produce things. |
| Medical Assistant | Assistant to a Doctor. |
| Medicus | A leech doctor. |
| Melder | A corn miller. |
| Mercator | A merchant |
| Mercer | Someone who sells cloth, mainly silks and velvets. A Draper. |
| Merchant | Someone who sells things |
| Messenger | Someone who carries messages. |
| Metalman | A worker in metal |
| Meterer | A poet. |
| Met Policeman | metropolitan police officer |
| Midwife | experienced woman who assists in child birth |
| Milk Carrier | Someone who carries milk. |
| Milk Dairyman | Someone who keeps dairy cattle and produces milk. |
| Miller | One who operated a mill; grain, cloth, timber etc. |
| Milleress | A female miller, or the miller's wife |
| Milliner | Someone who sells fancy wares and articles of apparel, or the maker of ladies hats, bonnets, etc. |
| Millner | See Milliner. |
| Millow | A miller. |
| Millpeck | Someone who sharpens mill stones. |
| Millstone Inspector | A vagrant, a gentleman of the road. |
| Millwright | designer & builder of mills or mill machinery |
| Miner | Someone who works in a mine, digging for coal, iron, lead, tin ore, etc. |
| Mintmaker, Mintmaster or Mintner | One who issued local currency. |
| Mixer | A barman or barwoman. |
| Mocado Weaver | A weaver of woollen cloth called mock velvet, used for making clothes. |
| Molendinarius or Muner | A miller. |
| Molitor | A miller |
| Mondayman | A person who worked for the landowner on Mondays in lieu of rent. |
| Monger | A dealer or seller of goods (ale, fish) |
| Monthly Nurse | someone who assisted women during the first month after giving birth |
| Moulder | maker of molds or castings, brickmaker |
| Moulder Runner | A pottery moulder's assistant. |
| Mountebank | A seller of ineffectual patent medicines. A "Snake Oil Salesman". |
| Mouse Trap Maker | |
| Mudlark | A sewer cleaner or riverbank scavenger |
| Muffin Maker | A baker who made muffins, or a pottery worker who made a specific type of plate called a muffin, a seven inch tea plate. |
| Muffin Man | An itinerant seller of muffins. |
| Muggler | See Pigman. |
| Mugseller | Someone who sells mugs and cups. |
| Muleteer | A mule driver. |
| Multurer | A miller. |
| Musicker | A musician. |
| Music Teacher | |
| Musical Student | |
| Musician, Music master | Someone who made music. |
| Muslin manufacture | Someone who made muslin. |
| Mustarder | See Mustardman |
| Mustard Maker | made and sold mustard. |
| Mustardman | A dealer in mustard. |
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