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This is a collection of the job titles or occupations of the people living in London in the 19th Century.
| Faber | artisan or workman, a smith. |
| Fabricator | A maker |
| Factor | An agent employed by merchants to transact business of buying and selling |
| Factor Agent | Merchant for commission or factor, one who transacts business for another (usually absent). |
| Factory Girl | |
| Factory Labourer | |
| Factory Lad | |
| Fagetter | made up faggots into bundles, seller of firewood |
| Faker | Photographic assistant who added colour to photographs by hand before colour film was available. |
| Falconer or Falkner | breeds, trains, or hunts with hawks |
| Fancy Basket Liner | |
| Fancy Box Maker | |
| Fancy Man | pimp |
| Fancy Pearl Worker | worked in mother-of-pearl making buttons or fancy goods |
| Fancy Salesman | |
| Fancy Trimmer | |
| Fancy Woman | prostitute |
| Fanner | A grain winnower. |
| Fanwright | A maker and repairer of fans or winnowing baskets. |
| Farandman<.td> | A stranger or traveller, especially a travelling merchant. |
| Farm bailiff | |
| Farmer | often descendant of the gentry; usually having servants and farm workers, or a tax-collector or bailiff. |
| Farmer, grazier | A farmer who pastures and raises cattle. |
| Farrier | A horse doctor, or a blacksmith, one who shoes horses |
| Farrier's Assistant | Obvious really/td> |
| Faulkner | A Falconer. |
| Fawkner | trainer of falcons |
| Fear Nothing Maker | A weaver of a special kind of thick woollen cloth known as fear-nought, used for protective clothing and lining portholes, walls, and doors of powder magazines on board ships. |
| Feather Beater | cleanser of feathers |
| Feather Curler | curled feathers to prepare them for use in hat making etc |
| Feather Dresser | cleaned and prepared feathers for sale |
| Feather Man | dealer in feathers and plumes |
| Feather Wife | woman who prepared feathers for use |
| Feeder | A herdsman. |
| Fell monger | One who removes hair or wool from hides in preparation for leather making, or a dealer in hides & sheepskins. |
| Feller | A woodcutter, or a person who laid or felled seams in textiles. |
| Felter | worker in the hatting industry |
| Fence Viewer | A person who inspects farmer's fences. |
| Feroner | An ironmonger. |
| Ferreter | Dealer in or manufacturer of ferret, or silk tape. |
| Ferur or Ferator | A farrier or blacksmith. |
| Festitian | Doctor or Physician |
| Fettler | cleaned the machinery in woollen mills, removing accumulated fibres, grease, etc, or one who sharpened the fustian cutters knives, or a needlemaker who filed the needle to a point. |
| Feuar | A holder of lands granted for services |
| Fever | A blacksmith. |
| Fewster | A maker of saddletrees. |
| Fewterer | The keeper of hounds, for hunting or coursing. A keeper of greyhounds. |
| Feydur Beater | A feather beater. |
| Field Master | See Hayward |
| File Cutter - Maker | a maker of files, involved the cutting of grooves on the file surface |
| Filler | A person who filled bobbins in mills. |
| Fine Drawer | One who is employed in tailoring to repair tears in the cloth. Invisible mending. |
| Finisher | operated machine giving final touches to a manufactured article in various trades |
| Finisher's Assistant | assisted - obvious really |
| Firebeater | A person who tended the boilers that powered the machinery in a cotton mill. |
| First Hand | silk weaver who had his own loom (an outworker) |
| Fiscere | A fisherman. |
| Fish Curer | cured fish |
| Fisher or Fishdryver | A victualler |
| Fish Fag | female fish monger |
| Fish Hawker | sold fish on the street |
| Fish Monger | sold fish from a shop |
| Fish Porter | carried and delivered boxes of fish in the fish market |
| Fisherman/woman | caught fish |
| Fitter | A common term for a person who assembled several portions of machinery together, or a coal broker. |
| Flasher | A specialist process worker in the glass industry. |
| Flatman | Navigated a broad flat-bottomed boat used for transport, especially in shallow waters. Common in the salt trade. |
| Flauner | A confectioner. |
| Flaxdresser | prepared flax prior to spinning |
| Flesher | A butcher or a person who worked in a tannery, or a nickname for a pimp. |
| Fleshewer | A butcher. |
| Fleshmonger | butcher or one who worked in a tannery |
| Fletcher | One who made bows and arrows; arrowsmith |
| Floater | A vagrant. |
| Floatman | See Flatman. |
| Florist | sold flowers from a shop |
| Flower | An archer (Flo-arrow). |
| Flower Hawker/Seller/Coster | sold flowers on the street |
| Flower Maker | made flowers (artificial) |
| Flower Worker | worked in the flower trade; looking after growing flowers |
| Flusherman | cleaned out water mains |
| Flycoachman or Flyman | driver of one-horse carriage hired by the day |
| Flying Stationer | street broadsheet seller |
| Flyman | Driver of a light vehicle hired out for carriage of passengers, or a theatre stage hand. |
| Fogger | Petty chapman, carrying wares from village to village, or a middleman in the nail and chain trade, or an agricultural worker responsible for feeding the cattle, or a low class lawyer (Pettifogger). |
| Foister or Foisterer | A joiner. |
| Foot Boy | A servant or attendant in livery. |
| Foot Maiden | female servant |
| Foot Man | servant who ran errands, or one who opened the doors for passengers |
| Foot Pad | thief or robber |
| Foot Post | letter carrier or messenger who travelled on foot |
| Foot Straightener | In watchmaking, a person who assembled watch and clock dials. |
| Foreman | a person in charge in almost any industry |
| Forestarius | A forester. |
| Forester | A game warden or forest ranger. |
| Forgeman, Smith or Forger | blacksmith, worker at a forge |
| Forkner | A falconer. |
| Fossetmaker | who made faucets for ale-casks, etc |
| Fower | A street cleaner, sweeper. |
| Fowler or Fugler | keeper or catcher of birds |
| Framar | A farmer |
| Frame Mounter | mounted frames |
| Frame Spinner | A worker on a loom. |
| Framer | A person who made frames for houses. |
| Framework Knitter | An operator of a machine which made hosiery. Originally a hand loom was used. Often abbreviated to FWK. |
| Freedman | one released from slavery |
| Freeholder | one who holds land by fee simple. In colonial times, a freeholder had the right to vote and hold public office. |
| Freeman | one who held the full rights of citizenship, such as voting and engaging in business, and a man who had served his apprenticeship and who could then work at his trade in his own right. |
| Freemason | stonecutter |
| French Polisher | polished quality wooden furniture using French polish, wax or special lacquer |
| Frereman | servant of the Friars. |
| Freser | A maker of frieze, a rough plaster. |
| Freshwater Man | A sailor who sailed boat on fresh water only or in the coastal trade. |
| Fringemaker | A person who made fringes, ornamental borders of cloth. |
| Fripperer | A buyer & seller of old clothes. |
| Friseur | A hairdresser. |
| Frobisher or Furbisher | remover of rust, a polisher of metal, eg. armour |
| Fruiterer or Fruit Salesman | sold fruit from a shop |
| Fruitestere | A female fruit seller. |
| Fruit Hawker | sold fruit on the street |
| Fruit Sorter | sorted fruit |
| Fulker | A pawnbroker |
| Fuller | fulls cloth; shrinks and thickens woollen cloth using fullers earth by moistening, heating, and pressing; one who cleans and finishes cloth |
| Funambulist | A tightrope walker. |
| Funeral Coachman | Drove a funeral coach or hearse. |
| Funeral Wreath Maker | Made wreaths for funerals |
| Fur Cape Maker | Made fur capes |
| Fur Cutter | Cut fur |
| Fur Dealer | Bought and sold fur and articles made from fur. |
| Fur Dresser | Dressed fur |
| Fur Machinist | Machined fur |
| Fur Puller | Pulled fur |
| Fur Sewer | Sewed fur |
| Fur Trimmer | Trimmed fur |
| Furbisher, Furber or Furbour | armor polisher, see Frobisher |
| Furner | baker |
| Furnisher | Dealt in furniture |
| Furniture Labourer | A labourer in the furniture industry |
| Furrier | seller, dresser or maker of furs |
| Fustian Weaver | A maker of corduroy. |
| Fuyster | See Foister. |
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