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208 Oh! who that remembers Parsons and Dodd ... in those two characters, etc.

2. When the antecedent is a collective noun, or noun of multitude, which should be used in non-defining and that in defining clauses, when the noun is referred to later by a singular pronoun, or by no pronoun at all, in which case the copula of the relative should be singular.

But if the noun in question, though singular in form, is referred to by a pronoun of plural meaning, the proper relative, in all cases, is who, and its verb should be plural.