Forced by a disobliging new world to shift on to the shoulders of an alien organization

[Lord Sackville] did not see himself in the role of a willing benefactor of the National Trust to be accorded grateful thanks on a public stage. He saw himself as the inheritor of a glorious palace the burden of which he had been forced by a disobliging new world to shift on to the shoulders of an alien organization while retaining, as far as it were possible, the status granted him by the old world.

J. Lees-Milne, People and Places: Country house donors and the national trust (1992), 181-2