George Hakewill

The style of Johnson was, undoubtedly, much formed upon that of the great writers in the last century, Hooker, Bacon, Sanderson, Hakewill, and others ; those " GIANTS," as they were well characterized by A GREAT PERSONAGE * whose authority, were I to name him, would stamp a reverence on the opinion.
--Boswell, in Life of Johnson. The "Great Persanage" is presumed to have been George III.